Shai Wosner + JACK Quartet
JACK Quartet joins forces with pianist Shai Wosner for a bold program of chamber music. The program includes JACK violinist Christopher Otto’s Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles, the artist’s contemporary rhythmic elaboration of a 16th century work by the English Renaissance composer. Wosner performs one solo piano piece, George Benjamin’s Relativity Rag, while JACK features or combines with Wosner on Henry Purcell’s Fantasy upon one note (piano quintet), Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet 1931, Wolfgang Rihm’s Interscriptum (piano quintet), Amy Williams’ Cineshapes #2 (piano quintet), and Thomas Ades’ Piano Quintet.
“The uniquely human capacity to become rhythmically entrained with other humans is an incredible (and incredibly mysterious) part of our cognitive evolution that I take for granted. This program is an exploration of the extreme edges of rhythmic experimentation across 500 years— it is also a celebration of this universal and innate human ability to measure and predict cycles of time.”
| Shai Wosner + JACK Quartet | Duration |
|---|---|
| Henry Purcell: Fantasy Upon One Note (arr. for piano quintet) | 4 |
| Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet (1931) | 10 |
| Wolfgang Rihm: Interscriptum (2000) | 14 |
| Christopher Otto: Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles | 5 |
| Amy Williams: Cineshape 2 (2007) | 10 |
| George Benjamin: Relativity Rag (1984) | 5 |
| Thomas Adès: Piano Quintet (2001) | 20 |
| Total Run Time | 70' |