Cover Caroline Shaw: Narrow Sea

Album info

Album-Release:
2021

HRA-Release:
22.01.2021

Label: Nonesuch

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish & Sō Percussion

Composer: Caroline Shaw

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • Caroline Shaw (b. 1982):
  • 1Narrow Sea, Pt. 103:28
  • 2Narrow Sea, Pt. 203:28
  • 3Narrow Sea, Pt. 304:57
  • 4Narrow Sea, Pt. 404:50
  • 5Narrow Sea, Pt. 502:42
  • 6Taxidermy08:57
  • Total Runtime28:22

Info for Caroline Shaw: Narrow Sea



Narrow Sea was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gil Kalish in 2017. The piece combines my previous explorations of folk song with a sonic universe that includes ceramic bowls, humming, a piano played like a dulcimer by five people at once, and flower pots (which are the central focus of Taxidermy - my first piece for So Percussion, written in 2012). Gil Kalish’s piano serves as a grounding force, or a familiar memory, that keeps reappearing amid the different textures introduced by Sō Percussion. And Dawn Upshaw’s voice is a brilliant instrument that brings the words to life with warmth and directness.

Each movement of Narrow Sea is a new melodic setting of a text from the Sacred Harp, a collection of shape note hymns first published in the 19th century. All of the texts used in the piece share two features: each refers to water in some way (the river Jordan, swelling flood, narrow sea - images of what lies between this world and the next), and each has a sense of joy in looking to heaven (crossing over, going home). These words may be hundreds of years old, but the essential yearning for a home, a safe resting place, has a renewed relevance today, throughout the world. The work is dedicated to all humans seeking safe refuge. - Caroline Shaw

Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Sō percussion

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