Partch: The Wayward
Partch Ensemble
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Chamber Choice
Instrumental performances throughout the record are precise and richly musical, while the vocal lines, which often teeter between the spoken and the sung, are delivered with terrific charm....
Partch: The Wayward
Partch Ensemble
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Chamber Choice
Instrumental performances throughout the record are precise and richly musical, while the vocal lines, which often teeter between the spoken and the sung, are delivered with terrific charm....
About
Bridge Records is pleased to issue the latest recording by Partch Ensemble, the Grammy Award winning new music group specializing in the music and instruments of the iconoclastic American composer Harry Partch. Partch's "The Wayward" in the composer's own words, is “a collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters—the result of my wanderings in the Western part of the United States from 1935 to 1941.” This is the world premiere recording of Partch's complete cycle.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineDecember 2025Chamber Choice
December 2025
Instrumental performances throughout the record are precise and richly musical, while the vocal lines, which often teeter between the spoken and the sung, are delivered with terrific charm. It is a pleasure indeed to encounter music so alive with imagination and performed with such poise.
