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Nico Muhly : Seeing is Believing

Nico Muhly, Aurora Orchestra Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (6 Jun 2011)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Decca (UMO)
  • ASIN: B004P1YX3U
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 99,647 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Seeing Is BelievingThomas Gould24:28Album Only
Listen  2. Miserere MeiAurora Orchestra 3:23£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. MotionAurora Orchestra 7:25£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. This Is The Record Of JohnAurora Orchestra 4:25£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. By All MeansAurora Orchestra 9:34£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Bow Thine EarAurora Orchestra 4:32£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Step TeamAurora Orchestra17:51Album Only


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CD Cond.Nicholas Collon / Violin Thomas Gould

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Magpie's Nest 5 Sep 2011
By The Wolf TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Nico Muhly is a musical magpie; a man unafraid to tiptoe between genres
with a light touch and a fiercely individual sense of craft and drama.
Operatic, film, vocal. orchestral and instrumental works have all sprung
from his not inconsiderable imagination with extraordinarily fluid aplomb.

'Seeing Is Believing' was composed in 2007 and receives a fine performance
here by The Aurora Orchestra under the attentive direction of conductor
Nicholas Collon. The invention juxtaposes four pieces by Mr Muhly with
four others by the early English composers William Byrd (x2) and Orlando
Gibbons (x2). The total sum of its parts makes for an invigorating and
substantial listen. In the same way that the great American abstractionist
Cy Twombly's paintings hung alongside the Great Masters at Dulwich Picture
Gallery in July this year, it shouldn't really work but somehow still makes
perfect sense. The old and the new resonating together in perfect accord.

Mr Muhly's compositions remind me of some of Sir Michael Tippett's greatest
moments. The marriage of the latter's highly lyrical and accessible early
material with the more challenging angular, block-like constructions of his
later years. Tippett, too, was brilliantly adept at responding to the past
and both assimilating and re-inventing it in the same breath. A comparison
I do not make lightly. Mr Muhly is a contemporary force to be reckoned with.

The opening gambit, title track 'Seeing Is Believing', an extended concerto-
form composition for violin and orchestra, is performed with sparkling immediacy
by soloist Thomas Gould. The melismatic string writing is quite beautiful; the
brass is full and warm; the woodwind mercurial. A deeply rewarding performance.

'Motion' is a wonderfully jittery and flamboyant confection, full of delicious
pizzicato accents and fluttering thematic cirliques, spiraling like swallows in
the crisp, cold air. The bravura playing makes one quite dizzy with joy!

'By All Means' is a darker, more searching composition, studded with fierce
punches from the brass and ghostly string glissandi. A haunting chiaroscuro
tapestry of sound whose innate qualities are far more European than American.

Mr Muhly's last piece, 'Step Team', makes much of Stravinsky-esque rhythms,
leaping and bounding like a pack of hounds after a frightened fox. Stunning!

The transcriptions of 'Misereri Mei' and 'Bow Thine Ear' by Byrd and 'This
Is The Record Of Man' and 'Hosanna To The Son Of David' by Gibbons are all
given lucid and deeply affecting performances by the attentive ensemble.

Great musick indeed!

'Seeing Is Believing' reaches towards the stars and returns with magical rewards.

Essential.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Glass's protege 8 Jun 2012
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As I understand it, Muhly worked under Glass and this is certainly apparent from some minimalist aspects of this interesting CD. That Muhly is a musician of eclectic talents may be witnessed from his performances. Anyone who has a penchant for contemporary classical should enjoy this CD
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nico Muhly: Hearing is believing 21 Jun 2011
By Porter Anderson - Published on Amazon.com
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"'Seeing Is Believing' immerses the listener in a night transfigured by Nico Muhly's sweeping vision. He calls up a starscape of clear-nocturnal wonder, sweetly juicing his lead for Thomas Gould's six-string electric violin. Listen at 11:20, when a flourish right out of Byzantium announces the composer's inspiration, what he calls "the ancient practice of observing and mapping the sky." Shortly after that, at 12:48, Muhly lays a proud cadence on the table, the violin's insistent search racing around it. Barely do you hear a muted trumpet's wry question when, at 14:00 Muhly throws down the gauntlet again. And from there, the piece unfolds into a high, bright night-field of Nicholas Collon's richly colored fluency with the Aurora Orchestra. Big brass and those "rapturous pulses" Muhly loves spiral up around Gould's assured solos, at times as edgy as a fiddler in "L'histoire du soldat." This 25-minute concerto, crawling with what Muhly terms "random, insect-like formulations," is an arresting new statement of his developing voice, so generously articulated by Gould, Collon, and the Aurora.

There are also three shorter but substantive key works from Muhly on the CD: the Webern-Weelkes wonder "By All Means" (get a load of John Reid's piano at 4:30); the plucky Gibbons-based "Motion"; and "Step Team," my favorite. Its conversational exchanges between strings and woodwinds are shoved around by hussy-brass into piano-paced arguments. For those of us who have loved Muhly's "Detailed Instructions," echoes of continuity (11:25) travel awfully well here, in the work of this guy who talks so fast but smiles at us in his music with unhurried, and sometimes brilliantly sad grace. Listen to this "Step Team" end. And then end. And then finally end. Lovely.

A radiant revelation here, too: three settings of motets (at Nick Collon's wise request) of Tudor-Jacobean composers Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd. My favorite is "Bow Thine Ear, O Lord." No decent deity could refuse such a request when it sounds like this from Muhly. The orderly restraint of our modern knave's nave gradually glows-up in a resplendent Aurora of such detailed and instructive brassy resolution at 2:00 that what Muhly calls "scandalously lush" is braced for good in our hearts.

Nico Muhly is on a superb tear. We do expect the main things from him. And we have good reason. This entry in his growing body of recorded work has been released, handsomely packaged by Decca, in the week of the English National Opera's world premiere of his opera "Two Boys" in London. The librettist is the formidable Craig Lucas ("The Light in the Piazza," "Prelude to a Kiss," "Longtime Companion," "The Dying Gaul"), the staging is directed by Bartlett Sher with projection designs by 59 Productions. Online buzz about the composer is building, of course. And Q2 is rolling out a full week of "Muhly mania." Q2 is the superb streaming contemporary-classical service of WQXR in New York. Found at Q2live dot org, it has become a major seat of Muhly's gathering momentum, a key force in helping audiences find him and vice-versa, thanks especially to the tireless advocacy of Muhly's colleague and friend, violist and Q2 host Nadia Sirota.

So quickly are things moving for Nico Muhly, this 29-year-old former Philip Glass associate, that it may be hard for some to believe reports of his primacy in the pantheon of "new music" makers today. So "see" for yourself: hearing is believing.
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