George Perle: Complete Wind Quintets (1988)

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New World Records
Only gradually has the music world come to realize how individual George Perle's music is, what a flexible musical language he has developed, and how different that language is from serialism. Perle never writes down to an audience and never worries about "accessibility," but he is a firm believer that "a piece that 'makes sense' will reach one, at some intuitive level, even at first hearing." Perle's divergence from mainstream twelve-tone music came early. In 1937 he borrowed the score to Alban Berg's Lyric Suite through which he discovered Schoenberg's twelve-tone system; but instead of regarding the row as an inviolable ordering of the twelve pitches, he considered it a modified scale that the composer could move around in at will. By the time he realized his mistake, he had discovered so many possibilities in his own, more flexible system that, as he said, "Schoenberg's idea of the series seemed so primitive compared to mine." Perle persevered in developing a "twelve-tone tonality," method of using the entire chromatic spectrum that corresponds closely to the major/minor system of traditional tonality.

Tracklist

Wind Quintet No. 1
1- I. (2:35)
2- II. (5:30)
3- III. (2:49)

Wind Quintet No. 2
4- I. (4:50)
5- II. (3:48)
6- III. (2:27)

Wind Quintet No. 3
7- I. (Fantasia (3:15)
8- II. Scherzo (3:43)
9- III. Recitative (2:44)
10- IV. Finale (3:50)

Wind Quintet No. 4
(Winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music)

11- Invention (2:38)
12- Scherzo (5:01)
13- Pastorale (5:44)
14- Finale (4:30)


The Dorian Wind Quintet
Elizabeth Mann, flute
Gerard Reuter, oboe
Jerry Kirkbride, clarinet
David Jolley, horn
Jane Taylor, bassoon
Julie Landsman, guest horn, on Quintets 2 and 3

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