In Four Color: Music for String Quartet
On the first CD, the PUBLIQuartet perform each of Soldier’s three full string quartets, each in five movements, written between 1988 and 2011.
The second quartet, Bambaataa Variations (1992) was inspired by the early hip-hop of the time and uses themes that Afrika Bambaataa used that he in turn took from other sources, such as riffs from Kraftwerk, as well as a theme from Muddy Waters. The final set of variations is on a theme by Soldier that ends with a joke on how to end an extended piece.
East St. Louis 1968 (1999) for quartet playing and recording is a portrait of Soldier’s experiences growing up in that area.
The Essential Quartet (Quartet #3, 2011) is constructed from the second movement of Arnold Schoenberg’s second quartet. As in the Variations on a Minute Waltz on the piano recording, these go beyond Schoenberg’s math, with calculus variations and a fractal version of the first five notes of Schoenberg’s piece played in four...
The second quartet, Bambaataa Variations (1992) was inspired by the early hip-hop of the time and uses themes that Afrika Bambaataa used that he in turn took from other sources, such as riffs from Kraftwerk, as well as a theme from Muddy Waters. The final set of variations is on a theme by Soldier that ends with a joke on how to end an extended piece.
East St. Louis 1968 (1999) for quartet playing and recording is a portrait of Soldier’s experiences growing up in that area.
The Essential Quartet (Quartet #3, 2011) is constructed from the second movement of Arnold Schoenberg’s second quartet. As in the Variations on a Minute Waltz on the piano recording, these go beyond Schoenberg’s math, with calculus variations and a fractal version of the first five notes of Schoenberg’s piece played in four...
