Performances & Recordings 1998-2018

by Charles Curtis

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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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	1.	Éliane Radigue – Occam V (2012) 17:26
	2.	Guillaume de Machaut – Helas! et comment (14th century) 03:28
	3.	Tobias Hume – Touch Me Lightly (circa 1607) 02:53
	4.	Tobias Hume – Captain Hume’s Galliard (circa 1607) 02:28
	5.	Tobias Hume – Mistress Tittle’s Jig (circa 1607) 00:35
	6.	Anonymous – Woodycock (circa 1607) 03:28
	7.	Silvestro di Ganassi – Ricercar Secondo (1542) 01:32
	8.	Silvestro di Ganassi – Ricercar Quarto (1542) 02:48
	9.	Guillaume de Machaut – C’est force, faire (14th century) 03:00
	10.	Charles Curtis – Unfinished Song (1998) 08:47
	11.	Terry Jennings – Song (1960) 06:30
	12.	Morton Feldman – Durations II (1960) 07:22
	13.	Anton Webern – Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11 (1914) 02:40
	14.	Olivier Messiaen – Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus (from Quatuor pour la fin du temps) (1941) 08:28
	15.	Alison Knowles – Rice and Beans for Charles Curtis (2008) 11:48
	16.	Anton Webern – Movement for String Trio, Op. Posthumous (1925) 02:32
	17.	Richard Maxfield – Perspectives for La Monte Young (1961-62) 24:00
	18.	Charles Curtis – Unison Offset (2001) 06:24
	19.	Charles Curtis – Music for Awhile (1999) 17:33
	20.	Charles Curtis – Music for “Lester” (2009) 03:15

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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

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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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