If Pierre Boulez’s pieces involving the juxtaposition of object and commentary, like Pli Selon Pli, were filtered through late Mortan Feldman and combined with a post-Messiaenic take on musique concrete, something approaching the frame of Bryn Harrison’s Towards a Slowing of the Past might be approximated.
Pianists Mark Knoop and Roderick Chadwick perform this nearly 45-minute work for two pianos and electronics with staggering subtlety and precision, but nothing prepares for its unfolding beauty and shimmering decline.
To state that the work slows and descends, as Harrison does in another indispensable composer interview housed on Another Timbre’s site, is true but far from the truth. To point toward its…
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Three recent and typically exquisite chamber works by Swiss composer