Baitz, Rick / Into Light
Album: | Into Light | Collection: | Classical | |
Artist: | Baitz, Rick | Added: | Mar 2019 | |
Label: | Innova Recordings |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2019-03-19 | Pull Date: | 2019-05-21 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
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Week Ending: | May 26 | May 19 | Apr 14 | Mar 31 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | May 21, 2019: | Magnetized Toner
Hall Of Mirrors For Percussion Quartet |
3. | Apr 13, 2019: | Music Casserole
Hall Of Mirrors For Percussion Quartet |
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2. | May 18, 2019: | Music Casserole
Hall Of Mirrors For Percussion Quartet |
4. | Mar 30, 2019: | Music Casserole
Chthhonic Dances For String Quartet |
Album Review
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2019-03-11
Reviewed 2019-03-11
Reviewed: 2018-03-11
Genre: Classical (X)
FCCs: none
Review: The music of the American composer Rick Baitz unfolds in long, episodic streams of sound, one section following another like the chapters in a picaresque novel. Each of the three chamber works on this engaging disc creates a distinctive sound world and then explores it for some 15 or 20 minutes without a lot of formal variation. The rewards come less in dramatic structure than in the ingratiating allure of Baitz’s textural and instrumental palette.
If You Like: hard to compare since each track has a different line-up.
Track Review (favorites denoted by *):
**1/ Chthonic Dances f(or String Quartet) (21:54) – viola starts> uptempo jam> pause> nidtempo jam builds into uptempo> pause> midtempo jam slows, then swings back up to uptempo> slows to midtempo> slows to slow tempo> quick fade
**2/ Wall of Mirrors (for Percussion Quartet) (14:41) – marimba starts> midtempo jam with shifting percussion instruments& electronics> crescendo> electronics space solo with percussion fills> midtempo percussion jam builds to uptempo> fade
*3/ Into Light (for Clarinet, Viola, & Piano) (21:54) – piano starts slow & heiistating> slow jam swings to midtempo & off-kilter> builds in volume & intensity> crescendo> pause> slow jam slowly builds to midtempo> crescendo> viola solo to fade
Genre: Classical (X)
FCCs: none
Review: The music of the American composer Rick Baitz unfolds in long, episodic streams of sound, one section following another like the chapters in a picaresque novel. Each of the three chamber works on this engaging disc creates a distinctive sound world and then explores it for some 15 or 20 minutes without a lot of formal variation. The rewards come less in dramatic structure than in the ingratiating allure of Baitz’s textural and instrumental palette.
If You Like: hard to compare since each track has a different line-up.
Track Review (favorites denoted by *):
**1/ Chthonic Dances f(or String Quartet) (21:54) – viola starts> uptempo jam> pause> nidtempo jam builds into uptempo> pause> midtempo jam slows, then swings back up to uptempo> slows to midtempo> slows to slow tempo> quick fade
**2/ Wall of Mirrors (for Percussion Quartet) (14:41) – marimba starts> midtempo jam with shifting percussion instruments& electronics> crescendo> electronics space solo with percussion fills> midtempo percussion jam builds to uptempo> fade
*3/ Into Light (for Clarinet, Viola, & Piano) (21:54) – piano starts slow & heiistating> slow jam swings to midtempo & off-kilter> builds in volume & intensity> crescendo> pause> slow jam slowly builds to midtempo> crescendo> viola solo to fade
Track Listing
1. | Chthhonic Dances For String Quartet | 3. | Into Light For Clarinet, Viola & Piano | |||
2. | Hall Of Mirrors For Percussion Quartet | . |