A Far Cry Presents: Four Quartets

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Four Quartets
Featuring Awadagin Pratt, piano

Three new works inspired by poet T.S. Eliot’s lyrical meditations on time and humanity’s relationship to it are presented alongside four movements from Beethoven’s exquisite and profound string quartets (the very same which were said to have inspired Eliot to write his Four Quartets). Through the Art of the Piano Foundation, acclaimed pianist Awadagin Pratt commissioned seven composers—including Montgomery, Singleton, and Prestini—to create works for piano and string orchestra or piano, string orchestra and vocal ensemble, based on Eliot's Four Quartets. Pratt, A Far Cry, and Roomful of Teeth recorded these works and released Stillpoint, from New Amsterdam Records.

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  1. Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, no. 1

    I. Allegro con brio, arr. Jesse Irons

  2. Alvin Singleton: Time Past, Time Future

  3. Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, no. 1

    II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando, arr. Annie Rabbat

  4. Jessie Montgomery: Rounds

  5. Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95

    VI. Larghetto espressivo; Allegretto agitato; Allegro, arr. A Far Cry

  6. Paola Prestini: Code for String Orchestra, arr. Prestini

  7. Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132

    III. "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart." Molto adagio - Andante, arr. A Far Cry