Keep in Touch - Nico Muhly (performed by Pemi Paull)

Keep in Touch - Nico Muhly
performed by Pemi Paull
@ Sala Rossa 18/12/11

Keep in Touch is a lament, a sort of chaconne divided up into sections by more freely composed cadenzas for the viola. But the chaconne, a musical form based around a repeated cycle of chords, is not only the domain of composers like Bach and Purcell. One is as likely to hear the form on a Nina Simone record, and Antony Hegarty, the bluesily androgynous vocalist we hear in the electronic component of this piece, is a performer from the Nina Simone school. Every dimension of the piece accentuates what Muhly calls the "in-betweenness"  of
these two strange voices: Antony's singing and the equally sweet falsetto of the viola. And Antony's voice, so stately on his own records, is here reduced to abrupt, extemporaneous gestures, mirroring, not alleviating, the viola's isolation.

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Music

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• Paull
• Keep In Touch
• Performance
• Nico
• Muhly
• Warhol
• Dervish
• viola
• Antony
• and
• the
• Johnsons
• Hegarty
• Antony And The Johnsons
• chaconne
• lament

[ZOMGHALP]

sexy.., i like it

this violist sounds like he understands where muhly is coming from

the balance is very even, and the production is very high quality.. i can only imagine what it must have sounded like in concert!

[MlStef]

Superbe fresque, félicitation et merci pour le partage.