WANDERING BIRD
Catalogue: Phasma-Music 060
UPC: 731093480416
recording, editing, mastering: Andrei Lifenco (tracks 1 and 13)
recording place: Life.N.Co Records, Chisinau, Moldova
recorded in June, 2022
recording, editing, mastering: Marcin Kowalczyk (tracks 2-6,8-10,12)
recording place: Academy of Arts in Stettin, Poland
recorded in February, 2022
recording, editing, mastering: Kostas Katsantonis (tracks 7 and 11) recording place: Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
recorded in September, 2022
graphic design: Michail Travlos
production management: Iwona Glinka front cover: Digital Art by Michail Travlos
premiere: August 18, 2023.
SCOTT BRICKMAN composer
Iwona Glinka, flute Spiros Travlos, violin Vicky Stylianou, piano
ÉxQuartet: Monika Sawczuk violin I, Łukasz Górewicz violin II, Grzegorz Sadowski viola, Tomasz Szczęsny cello
Mihail Agafita conductor
The Symphonic Orchestra of the National Philharmonic „Serghei Lunchevici” of the Republic of Moldova
Scott Brickman about Wędrowna Ptaszyna (Wandering Bird)
What I perceive in my compositions and what listeners hear is not always the same. What is most important to me is that I enjoy the total experience, writing, rehearsing, hearing, what I compose, and that both listeners and performers find some meaningful musical experience from my work.
I would describe my music as modernist. Performers have told me that there is a sense of play to much of my music and also that tempo is much more important in my compositions than that of other composers.
Because I am interested in modernism, pitch, including melody/motives, harmony, counterpoint and tonal areas (in the most loose sense of the word tonal) has been a primary concern of mine. Almost all of my music uses ordered 12-tone rows, but in an unorthodox and idiosyncratic manner. Almost all of my music is octatonic based. Since 2002 when I began writing electroacoustic music and orchestral music in 2006, color, pacing, and musical space have been increasing concerns of mine. I have tried to explain to many people how watching football (soccer) and the way players use the pitch (field) is musically suggestive to me.
Product details
01. Ugunskrusts for symphony orchestra [08:27]
String Quartet #2
02. Prelude [02:52]
03. Romanza [03:38]
04. Mazurka [02:37]
05. Polonaise [02:14]
06. Polka Variations [03:29]
07. Wędrowna Ptaszyna (Wandering Bird) for flute solo [05:05]
String Quartet #3
08. Sutartine [02:31]
09. Dziesma [04:11]
10. Dejot [03:14]
11. Fantasy for violin and piano [10:53]
12. String Quartet #4 [11:49]
13. Symphony #7 [10:51]
Total time: [71:57]