Calder Quartet : Recordings : Alliance Artist Management

The Edge Of Light / Gloria Cheng, Calder Quartet

Harmonia Mundi — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Grammy Award winning pianist Gloria Cheng brings her probing and insightful style to a fascinating program that couples the brilliant and colorful works of Olivier Messiaen with the darkly radiant music of Kaija Saariaho. In addition to world première recordings of Saariaho's Ballade and Prelude, Cheng is joined by the genre-crossing Calder Quartet for Messiaen's Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes and Saariaho's powerful and deeply personal Je sens un deuxième coeur.

Terry Riley - Two Early Works

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Calder Quartet met Terry for the first time at the LA Philharmonic's Minimalist Jukebox Festival in 2006. They performed his Trio and Quartet, which had been sitting on a shelf for over 40 years. Bringing these pieces back to life for him was exciting- he likened it to "being reintroduced to old friends." In commemoration of Terry's 75th birthday this world premiere recording is available for download and as a limited edition of 75 vinyl records numbered by hand and signed by the Calder Quartet and artist Dave Muller.

Transfiguration: Christopher Rouse

E1 Entertainment — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400

"At one point during our recording session, Ben's bow exploded!" Calder Quartet violist Jonathan Moerschel tells us of first violinist Benjamin Jacobson. The L.A.-based group is fortunate that horsehair was the lone casualty of the sessions for its outstanding latest release, Transfiguration. The word brutal is often used to describe the compositions of Christopher Rouse, whose String Quartets No. 1 and 2 and "Compline" are pressed to CD here for the first time.

Transfiguration: Christopher Rouse

E1 Entertainment — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The Calder Quartet

Self Released — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The recording is emblematic of a concert program the Calder Quartet would typically present, pairing a contemporary piece with older works, allowing the new and the old to influence one another. All three of the pieces on the album share a certain delicacy and offer the opportunity for unique interpretation. The recording is centered on Thomas Ad