Christopher Cerrone - The Arching Path (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. The Arching Path: I. Musmeci's Concrete
02. The Arching Path: II. Sul Basento
03. The Arching Path: III.
04. Double Happiness: I. Self Portrait, Part 1
05. Double Happiness: II. Interlude
06. Double Happiness: III. Self Portrait, Part 2
07. Double Happiness: IV. Interlude
08. Double Happiness: V. New Year's Song
09. I Will Love to Love a Person: 1. That Night with the Green Sky
10. I Will Learn to Love a Person: 2. Eleven Page Poem, Page III
11. I Will Learn to Love a Person: 3. I Will Learn How to Love a Person and Then I Will Teach You and Then We Will Know
12. I Will Learn to Love a Person: 4. When I Leave This Place
13. I Will Learn to Love a Person: 5. Are You Ok?
14. Hoyt - Schermerhorn


In a Circle Records proudly presents composer Christopher Cerrone’s latest album, "The Arching Path." A follow-up to Cerrone’s 2019 GRAMMY-nominated "The Pieces that Fall to Earth," The Arching Path is a piano-driven, electro-acoustic album of chamber music featuring pianist Timo Andres, percussionist Ian Rosenbaum, soprano Lindsay Kesselman, and clarinetist Mingzhe Wang. The warm, resonant and rhythmic music on The Arching Path is inspired by Cerrone's travels to Italy and composed between 2010 and 2016. The album was produced by longtime Cerrone collaborator, Mike Tierney, who also worked on "The Pieces that Fall to Earth."

The works on Christopher Cerrone’s "The Arching Path" examine how we metabolize place. Drawing largely from the composer’s travels, the pieces on The Arching Path comprise a sort of travelogue—not an attempt to inscribe experiences exactly as they were witnessed, but rather to chronicle their aftershocks long after we have returned home. "The Arching Path" is a virtuosic piano solo inspired by the vertiginous arcs of the Musmeci Bridge in Potenza in Southern Italy. "Double Happiness" is a electro-acoustic duet for piano and percussion featuring field recordings of the Italian countryside. "I Will Learn to Love a Person" is a set of love songs adapted from poetry by Tao Lin. The album closes with Hoyt–Schermerhorn inspired by a subway stop where Cerrone has spent many a night of his commute.

As Cerrone puts it: “This album is a collection of pieces written over the last ten years memorializing essential moments in my life, performed by some of my closest friends and collaborators. Part of the joy of the project has been creating an album that goes far beyond the replication of live performance and instead becomes a project all its own, where recording, editing, and mixing techniques are as essential to the process as composition. I’m particularly thrilled to be collaborating with In a Circle Records, who have a long history of releasing works that cross the boundaries of classical music and other genres.”

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