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Mark Knoop,Piano
Étude d’un prélude I—Chopin desséché
Étude d’un prélude IV—Black Wires
Étude d’un prélude VII—Latticed Window
Étude d’un prélude XI—four28 The Artist and his Model I—La fille floutée
The Artist and his Model I—La fille floutée
Nach Webern, nach Pollini
Neuordnung nach Dauern
Bewegungen in Zeitlupe
Neuordnung nach Lautstärken
Kreutzer Quartet
Étude d’un prélude X—Second String Quartet
Flutter echoes (Étude d'un prélude II)
The Real Thing (Étude d'un prélude VI)
Kertész Distortion (Étude d'un prélude VIII)
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The Artist and his Model II—La durée sans contacts s’affaiblit

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This 2-CD set includes the inaugural recordings of Richard Beaudoin’s music based on microtiming: a refined methodology for translating micro-temporal properties of a recorded performance into standard notation, which are then used as the basis for newly-composed acoustic works. The CDs include eleven recent pieces, all recorded in England, based on microtimings of Martha Argerich playing Chopin, Alfred Cortot playing Debussy, and Maurizio Pollini playing Webern.

Disc One is devoted to piano music played by Mark Knoop (“one of the most brilliant pianists of the contemporary repertoire” The Sunday Times). Disc Two is devoted to string quartet music played by the Kreutzer Quartet (led by Peter Sheppard Skærved, who plays the 1698 Stradivari ‘Joachim’ violin).

DISC ONE
Mark Knoop, piano (Steinway model D 587462)
Producer, Engineer, Editor: David Lefeber
Recorded 16 December 2010 at Potton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK.
Special thanks to Olivier Senn, Stanislas Nanchen and the Royal Academy of Music, London.

DISC TWO
Kreutzer Quartet
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin: Stradivari ‘Joachim’ 1698)
Mihailo Trandafilovski (Violin: Honoré Derazey 1855)
Morgan Goff (Viola: Daniel Parker 1715)
Neil Heyde (Violoncello: Bartolomeo Cristofori, Florence, c. 1700)
Engineer: Jonathan Haskell
Producer: Neil Heyde
Recorded 17 – 18 May 2011 at the Church of St John the Baptist, Aldbury, Herfordshire, UK.
Special thanks to Olivier Senn, Stanislas Nanchen and the Harvard University Department of Music.

BOOKLET
Cover: Glenn Brown, The Real Thing, 2000, Oil on panel, 82 x 66.5 cm, © 2012 Glenn Brown
Photos: Mark Knoop (p. 2, Potton Hall), Yatzek (p. 8, Mark Knoop), Richard Bram (p. 14, Kreutzer Quartet)
Design: Max Vtiourin
Text: Richard Beaudoin
All score excerpts © copyright 2012 by Richard Beaudoin. All rights reserved.

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