Composer(s): Lang, David; Reed, Lou
Lyricist(s): Reed, Lou
Arranger(s): Lang, David
Conductor(s): Rose, Gil
Ensemble(s): Real Quiet
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Genre: Chamber Music; Instrumental; Orchestral; Vocal
Period: 20th Century; Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.559615
Barcode: 0636943961520
Release Date: 11/2008

LANG, D.: Pierced / Heroin / Cheating, Lying, Stealing / How to Pray / Wed (Real Quiet)

“One of the things I like about this disc is that all the pieces try to take classical music someplace it doesn’t usually go,” declares David Lang, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who co-founded the experimental classical music festival Bang on a Can. “There is no name yet for this kind of music,” wrote Mark Swed of The Los Angeles Times, but audiences everywhere hear and love it; from New York to Tokyo, BBC Proms to Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, Strasbourg Festival to Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. Pierced is an unconventional concerto, jazzy and ominous; Heroin resets Lou Reed’s ‘dangerous’ Velvet Underground song; Cheating, Lying, Stealing is a calling card for the Bang on a Can All-Stars; the trance-inducing Wed commemorates the memory of visual artist Kate Ericson.

Tracklist

Lang, David
Real Quiet (Ensemble)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Orchestra)
Rose, Gil (Conductor)
1Pierced13:51
Real Quiet (Ensemble)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Orchestra)
Rose, Gil (Conductor)
Reed, Lou
Lang, David - Arranger
Reed, Lou - Lyricist
Bleckmann, Theo (vocals)
Fan, Felix (cello)
2Heroin (arr. D. Lang for voice and cello)10:57
Bleckmann, Theo (vocals)
Fan, Felix (cello)
Lang, David
Ziporyn, Evan (bass clarinet)
Real Quiet (Ensemble)
3Cheating, Lying, Stealing10:42
Ziporyn, Evan (bass clarinet)
Real Quiet (Ensemble)
Real Quiet (Ensemble)
4How to Pray09:55
Real Quiet (Ensemble)
Russo, Andrew (piano)
5Wed05:18
Russo, Andrew (piano)

Total Playing Time: 50:43