Roadshow: Music of Carl Schimmel

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Release Date: 6th Jan 2017
Catalogue No: FCR167
Label: New Focus Recordings
Length: 62 minutes

Schimmel: Roadshow for Otto

Work length9:30

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Alex Sopp, Romie de Guise-Langlois, Sumire Kudo, Steven Beck

I. The Silver Atom Ray Gun

Track length1:33

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II. The Clown Mandeville

Track length2:38

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III. Pedaling the Spirit of America

Track length1:36

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IV. Camel and Monkey

Track length2:08

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V. The Revolving Flashing Robot

Track length1:35

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Schimmel: Roadshow for Thora

Work length11:02

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Soli Chamber Ensemble

I. The Yes No Bear

Track length2:15

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II. The Ives Trotter

Track length1:47

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III. Pulling the Pink Pig

Track length2:07

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IV. The Clown Magician

Track length2:39

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V. The Humpty Dumpty Circus Band

Track length2:14

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Schimmel: 4 Nocturnes from "The Oblivion Ha-Ha"

Work length12:34

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Lucy Shelton
Da Capo Chamber Players

I. Jim's All Night Diner

Track length3:17

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II. The Plaza

Track length3:49

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III. The Sleeper

Track length1:27

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IV. Coda

Track length4:01

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Schimmel: String Quartet No. 2 "Six Faces"

Work length16:59

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Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

Prelude

Track length2:18

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I. Girl with Cross

Track length2:30

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Interlude I

Track length0:48

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II. Man with Pipe

Track length1:47

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Interlude II

Track length0:21

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III. Woman with Animals

Track length2:29

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Intermezzo

Track length1:53

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IV. Woman with Mandolin

Track length1:01

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Interlude III

Track length0:51

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V. Woman with Fan

Track length1:20

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VI. Man with Cane

Track length1:03

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Epilogue

Track length0:38

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Schimmel: The Pismirist's Congeries

Work length12:26

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Alex Sopp, Sharon Roffman, Wendy Law, Steven Beck

I. Gonfanon

Track length1:22

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II. Orrery

Track length2:37

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III. Anacampserote

Track length2:20

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IV. Zufolo

Track length1:00

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V. Chirogymnast

Track length0:44

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VI. Pilliwinks

Track length0:34

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VII. Thymiaterion

Track length1:35

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VIII. Daedalum

Track length0:47

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IX. Smalti

Track length1:27

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Carl Schimmel's music possesses a Haydesque structural sensibility augmented with a playful sense of humor. His wonderful ability to communicate semantic meaning from moment to moment gives his scores an engaging narrative, and his penchant fo rminiatures fits perfectly wit hhis colorful depiction of different characters. He is influenced deeply by literature and a background in mathematics. Both of Schimmel's "Roadshow" pieces are written for his children, one for his son Otto and the other for his daughter Thora. Schimmel was inspired by the hit PBS show "Antiques Roadshow," and each miniature movement is a musical imagining of how his children might play with toys he saw featured on thes how. The first track of the recording, "Silver Atom Ray Gun" from Roadshow for Otto, with its bravura opening and maudlin asides, encapsulates Schimmel's occasionally cartoonish presentation. The opening movement Four Nocturnes from "The Oblivion Ha-Ha" sets poetry by James Tate, an American poet whose surrealist imagery veered toward the absurd later in his career. Schimmel's style of setting the text here verges closer to recitative than lieder, and an attentive listener might hear references to Debussy in the final movement. The six movements of his String Quartet No. 2 are inspired by cubist paintings that Schimmel then incorporates as characters in the piece (the paintings are y Braque, Picasso, Gleizes, Gris, Metzinger and Leger). Like a cubist painting, the piece's six portrait movements form six sides of the same complex entity, perhaps even facets of a single personality. The final work on the recording, The Pismirist's Congeries, returns to something of the light character of the "Roadshow" pair. A "pismirist" is someone who collects small, insignificant things, and each movement of this work is named after a different keepsake, such as "orrery" (a clockwork model of the solar system) or "zufalo" (a small flute used to train songbirds). This collection, Schimmel's debut full length release, shows the composer at his best, writing intricate, expressive music that balances wit and pathos.

Roadshow: Music of Carl Schimmel

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