Carpenter: From the Valley Baca

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Release Date: 8th Feb 2019
Catalogue No: NV6208
Label: Navona Records
Length: 65 minutes

Carpenter, D: String Trio

Work length15:56

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Rebecca Harris (violin), Myanna Harvey (viola), Cassia Harvey (cello)

String Trio: I. Quarter Note = 126

Track length5:41

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String Trio: II. Quarter Note = 80

Track length4:09

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String Trio: III. Quarter Note = 110

Track length6:06

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Carpenter, D: From the Valley of Baca

Work length30:05

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Lawrence Indik (baritone), Charles Abramovic (piano)

From the Valley of Baca: No. 1, Not While the Snow-shroud

Track length4:53

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From the Valley of Baca: No. 2, Ma yididot mishk'notecha Adonai tsivaot

Track length1:53

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From the Valley of Baca: No. 3, Across the Eastern Sky

Track length6:07

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From the Valley of Baca: No. 4, Ashrei adam oz lo bach m'silot bilvavam

Track length1:03

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From the Valley of Baca: No. 5, I Saw a Youth Pass down That Vale of Tears

Track length5:11

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From the Valley of Baca: No. 6, Adonai elohim tsivaot

Track length0:59

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From the Valley of Baca: No. 7, What, Can These Dead Bones Live

Track length3:24

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From the Valley of Baca: No. 8, Ki tov yom bachatserecha mealef

Track length1:22

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From the Valley of Baca: No. 9, I Saw in Dream

Track length5:13

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Carpenter, D: Piano Sonata

Work length19:50

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Katelyn Bouska (piano)

Piano Sonata: I. Quarter Note = Ca. 76

Track length6:06

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Piano Sonata: II. Quarter Note = 69

Track length5:15

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Piano Sonata: III. Quarter Note = 104

Track length8:29

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Composer David Carpenter’s PARMA debut, From the Valley of the Baca, features three works that illustrate the expansive scope of his compositional style. From the lyrical Trio, to the powerfully poetic title work for baritone and piano, to the romantically-inclined Sonata, From the Valley of the Baca demonstrates the composer’s ability to express his artistic vision in a wide variety of musical genres. The harmonic language and brooding character of the Trio, which recalls the introspective character of Shostakovich’s String Quartet in C minor, op. 110, is balanced by Carpenter’s penchant for long, lyrical lines, particularly in the Trio’s second movement. Carpenter cites two sources of inspiration for his song cycle From the Valley of Baca, one musical and one poetic: His work Job for baritone and piano, based on the book from the Hebrew Bible, sparked the idea of writing a song cycle based on the poetry of the Jewish-American author Emma Lazarus. One of Lazarus’s, poems, “The Valley of Baca,” which references the 84th psalm, also inspired Carpenter to intersperse the verses of this psalm, set in its original Hebrew, throughout the song cycle, serving as a counterbalance to the English texts of Lazarus’s poems. In 2015, Carpenter composed a work entitled Rhapsody for pianist Katelyn Bouska as a companion piece to Chopin’s Piano Sonata in B minor, op. 58, both of which Bouska performed at a recital in Paris that year. At Bouska’s behest, Carpenter added two movements to this composition to form a sonata, employing a sighing, chromatic motive from the Rhapsody to bind the three movements together. Emphasizing again that the past informs the work of many artists, something of Chopin’s musical style, as well as that of other Romantic-era composers, finds voice in this new work. While he has drawn musical inspiration from past masters, Carpenter’s music is intended neither as a pastiche of earlier musical styles nor an anachronism.

Carpenter: From the Valley Baca

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