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Performances & Recordings 1998​-​2018

by Charles Curtis

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sylvain-levier Sounds like lines. Conducive to bringing out the unknown forms that lurk in our minds. Favorite track: Charles Curtis – Unfinished Song (1998).
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tctclr A really well curated selection of pieces spanning many different eras and styles. The beautiful playing of Curtis brings out the best of the composers featured here. Highly recommended.
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Charlie Moonbeam Is there anything that better accompanies the inherent melancholy of a day-long downpour than the cello?
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John Simms Is the sound of any instrument more profound than that of the cello in the hands of a master? (Well, maybe the viola da gamba.) Here is exquisite cello music from the 14th to the 21st centuries played by Charles Curtis, including four compositions of his own. "Unfinished Song" will make you a believer.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    New double-LP edition of a selection from Saltern's acclaimed collection of recordings surveying the career of renowned, American cellist, Charles Curtis. Features the music of Guillaume de Machaut, Tobias Hume, Silvestro di Ganassi, Terry Jennings, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, Richard Maxfield, and Curtis himself. Includes liner notes by La Monte Young and Tashi Wada, as well as a new text by Curtis, and a download of the full original album. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, and cut to vinyl via DMM by Hans-Jörg Maucksch at Pauler Acoustics. Pressed at RTI and printed at Stoughton.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Second edition. Liner notes by La Monte Young, Spencer Gerhardt, Curtis, and Tashi Wada. Custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Saltern presents its fifth release, Charles Curtis: Performances & Recordings 1998-2018, the first comprehensive collection of recordings surveying the career of renowned, American cellist Charles Curtis. Selected by Curtis and Tashi Wada from recordings spanning the past two decades, the collection offers a broad, inclusive view of Curtis’s activities across the diverse worlds of music he inhabits, containing rare, unreleased recordings, and never-before-released music by Terry Jennings, Richard Maxfield, Éliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, and Curtis. The wide-ranging scope of this release speaks not to a musical restlessness, but to a genuine spirit of inquiry, as these areas of activity for Curtis have existed concurrently in dialogue, not simply in succession, for decades. Over two hours of music by composers and artists with whom Curtis is closely associated including Éliane Radigue, Guillaume de Machaut, Tobias Hume, Silvestro di Ganassi, Terry Jennings, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, Alison Knowles, Richard Maxfield, and Curtis himself.
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Listed #2 in The Wire’s 2020 Archive Releases of the Year

“Underpinning everything [Curtis] has achieved is a deep communion with, and a profound technical understanding of, the stuff of sound itself.” —Philip Clark, The Wire

"Curtis does not so much juxtapose different kinds of music against one another as thread them together through tone, resonance, and mood. His playing is focused, calm, and simple in the best sense of the word. It is also spiritual in a way I can’t exactly pin down. It’s as though the huge spaces he slowly opens up inside single notes also suggest a way out of the self." —Richard Beck, n+1

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released January 24, 2020

Produced by Tashi Wada
Additional mixing by Anthony Burr
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu

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Charles Curtis San Diego, California

Called by Artforum "one of the great cellists," Charles Curtis (b. 1960, Laguna Beach, California) has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance and experimental music, creating a new body of work for solo cello via his extensive collaborations with pioneers of new music La Monte Young, Éliane Radigue, and Alvin Lucier, among others. Since 2000, Curtis has taught at UCSD. ... more

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