Jeffrey Mumford
(Al Fuchs, Courtesy of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music)
(Al Fuchs, Courtesy of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music)
Jeffrey Mumford
through a stillness brightening
Albany Records Troy 1473-74 (2014)
Jeffrey Mumford:
FYI, two recent critic's picks in NYC! Hope you are well and thanks for all that you are doing!!
Best,
J
Time Out New York
Posted: Thu Apr 3 2014
Jeffrey Mumford, a composer who studied with modernist lions
Elliott Carter and Bernard Rands, has an uncanny knack for writing music
that plays rigorous but sounds painterly, a point neatly made by through a stillness brightening,
a two-CD compendium on the Albany label. Here, you can catch three of
the artists involved in that set—violinist Miranda Cuckson, cellist
Julia Bruskin and pianist Steven Beck—in live renditions of Mumford's
works.
Miranda Cuckson
(Gregory Christopher for The New York Times)
The New York Times
April 9, 2014
April 9, 2014
MUMFORD: ‘Through a stillness brightening’
Miranda
Cuckson, violinist; Wendy Richman, violist; Julia Bruskin, cellist;
Winston Choi, pianist; Argento Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Michel
Galante; and others (Albany)
Jeffrey
Mumford, a distinguished American composer who studied with Elliott
Carter and Bernard Rands, among others, has an unerring knack for
fashioning rigorous works as changeable as cloudscapes, bursting with
color, nuance and poetry. Those qualities are abundantly present in this
generous Kickstarter-financed collection of chamber pieces spanning 30 years; sources and sonorities vary, but inspiration and expert advocacy are consistent. (Steve Smith)
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