Zosha Di Castri: Tachitipo

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The typewriter is treated as part of the percussion section, a sensitive integration that means the additional timbre never feels tokenistic. There’s much to explore in the other give pieces,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: FCR227
Label: New Focus Recordings
Length: 74 minutes

Castri: The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named

Work length12:31

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Zosha Di Castri (electronics)
Ekmeles

Castri: Cortège

Work length7:09

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Talea Ensemble
Lorraine Vaillancourt

Castri: String Quartet No. 1

Work length10:07

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JACK Quartet

Castri: Dux

Work length11:39

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Julia Den Boer (piano)

Castri: La forma dello spazio

Work length8:49

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International Contemporary Ensemble
Lorraine Vaillancourt

Castri: Tachitipo

Work length24:01

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Zosha Di Castri (electronics)
Yarn/Wire

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Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri releases this stellar collection of music for various instrumentations, featuring the JACK Quartet, pianist Julia Den Boer, Yarn/Wire, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and the vocal ensemble Ekmeles. Her compositions are an expression of a searching artistry, mapping her explorations into the nature of experience onto musical parameters, including structural organization, timbral vocabulary, and text setting. Zosha Di Castri is a Canadian composer/pianist/sound artist living in New York. Her work, which has been performed internationally, extends beyond purely concert music including projects with electronics, installations, and collaborations with video and dance. She has worked with such ensembles as the BBC Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the L.A. Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the NEM, Ensemble Cairn, and the groups included on this album among others. Zosha is currently the Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University and was a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris during 2018–19, while working on this recording project.

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March 2020

The typewriter is treated as part of the percussion section, a sensitive integration that means the additional timbre never feels tokenistic. There’s much to explore in the other give pieces, performed by a variety of musicians across multiple locations.

Zosha Di Castri: Tachitipo

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