Steven Mackey

Speak Like The People, Write Like The King

Steven Mackey (b. 1956)

Ars Moriendi (2000)
Borromeo String Quartet

'Lude (2002)
Brentano String Quartet

Gaggle and Flock (2001)
Borromeo and Brentano String Quartets

BRIDGE 9257

 


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Steven Mackey: Speak Like The People, Write Like The King

The three pieces on this disc are all for string quartet, or two string quartets (Gaggle and Flock). Ars Moriendi, Latin for 'the art of dying well', in 9 sections, is an extremely personal composition, virtually a diary describing the demise of the composer's father. 'Lude was written as a companion piece to J.S. Bach's Contrapunctis XI from "The Art of the Fugue", and Gaggle and Flock was composed to celebrate collegial bonds between the two excellent quartets that share this recording.

Other Steve Mackey discs on Bridge are:
Lost and Found, BRIDGE 9065
Interior Design, BRIDGE 9183