Carpe Diem String Quartet - Wolosoff: Songs Without Words (2010)

Tracklist

01. Songs Without Words: No. 1, The River
02. Songs Without Words: No. 2, Circle Dance
03. Songs Without Words: No. 3, Blues for Stravinsky
04. Songs Without Words: No. 4, Wound Up!
05. Songs Without Words: No. 5, Dancing on my Grave
06. Songs Without Words: No. 6, Reverence
07. Songs Without Words: No. 7, The Sidewalk Strut
08. Songs Without Words: No. 8, The Letter
09. Songs Without Words: No. 9, Skunk
10. Songs Without Words: No. 10, Young Love
11. Songs Without Words: No. 11, Creepalicious
12. Songs Without Words: No. 12, After Hours
13. Songs Without Words: No. 13, Cat Scratch Fever
14. Songs Without Words: No. 14, Getting Down
15. Songs Without Words: No. 15, Fire and Ice
16. Songs Without Words: No. 16, Tough Decisions
17. Songs Without Words: No. 17, Survivor's Truth
18. Songs Without Words: No. 18, The Last Kiss

‘Bruce Wolosoff’s music is beautiful, very musical, independent-minded stylistically,’ declares no less a luminary than William Bolcom. The eighteen Songs Without Words on this disc are true ‘genre busters’, amiably crossing musical borders between popular and classical music and walking the lines that divide them. Such eclecticism requires superbly laid-back compositional control, and demands equally accomplished and relaxed performance. ‘Imagine my newfound joy at the possibility of writing music that my friends might want to listen to for pleasure,’ Wolosoff declared on hearing the Carpe Diem String Quartet’s enthusiastically fun-filled interpretations.

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