ACO Originals – Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright
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ACO Originals is a series of releases dedicated to new works commissioned by the ACO and recorded live in concert.
Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright was commissioned for Principal Bass Maxime Bibeau in celebration of his 20th year with the orchestra. 'I was inspired in no small part by Maxime’s double bass, a massive instrument built in 1580 that was stored in an Italian monastery for hundreds of years and even patched with pages from the Good Friday liturgy’, says Mazzoli. ‘I imagined this instrument as a historian, an object that collected the music of the passing centuries in the twists of its neck and the fibres of its wood, finally emerging into the light at age 400 and singing it all into the world.’
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TRACKLIST
1. MISSY MAZZOLI Dark with Excessive Bright: Concerto for Contrabass and String Orchestra [12'43]
ARTISTS
Richard Tognetti Director and Violin
Maxime Bibeau Double Bass
Australian Chamber Orchestra
ALBUM INFO
Release date: 12 June 2020
Label: ABC Classic
Catalogue number: DIGITAL
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