℗ 2023 Awadagin Pratt
Released | August 25, 2023 |
Duration | 1h 19m 11s |
Record Label | New Amsterdam |
Catalogue No. | NWAM177 |
Genre | Classical (Genre-fluid) |
STILLPOINT
Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry, Roomful of Teeth
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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Rounds
Jessie Montgomery; Awadagin Pratt; A Far Cry |
14:22 | |||
1.2
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Code
Paola Prestini; Awadagin Pratt; A Far Cry; Roomful of Teeth |
17:23 | |||
1.3
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Time Past, Time Future
Alvin Singleton; Awadagin Pratt; A Far Cry |
12:29 | |||
1.4
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Castillo Interior
Pēteris Vasks; Awadagin Pratt |
11:42 | |||
1.5
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Untitled Composition for Piano and Eight Voices
Tyshawn Sorey; Awadagin Pratt; Roomful of Teeth |
10:35 | |||
1.6
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Still Point
Judd Greenstein; Awadagin Pratt; A Far Cry; Roomful of Teeth |
12:40 |
Grammy Award Nomination, 2024 – Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Montgomery: Rounds
Jessie Montgomery, composer (Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry & Roomful Of Teeth)
Internationally acclaimed pianist Awadagin Pratt, known as “one of the great and distinctive American pianists and conductors of our time” (NPR All Things Considered), and praised for his “enormous dynamic range [that] encompasses grave quiet to immense thunder” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), releases his new album, STILLPOINT, via New Amsterdam Records.
STILLPOINT is a collection of six newly-commissioned works of profound grace, power, and depth, composed by a group of stylistically diverse composers for piano (Pratt), string orchestra (A Far Cry), and vocal ensemble (Roomful of Teeth).
STILLPOINT is a departure from — and a re-imagining of — Pratt's decades-long artistic journey, as he engages with and questions the long established genre-specific norms of classical music. By uniting T.S. Eliot's prescient poem The Four Quartets with his own pioneering musicianship, and with the creative voices of his chosen composers, Pratt explores, in his words, Eliot’s “expression of a particular kind of tension, an understanding of a duality that can exist in life, the struggle for balance, and an acknowledgement of the inexpressible–that which cannot be tidily communicated” as a pathway to ideas not particular to one’s own experience, but universal to the human condition.
The album is a collaboration between Pratt; the Grammy-winning vocal band, Roomful of Teeth; the democratically run string orchestra, A Far Cry; and a stellar array of composers including Alvin Singleton, Jessie Montgomery, Judd Greenstein, Paola Prestini, Pēteris Vasks, and Tyshawn Sorey
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – New Amsterdam Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.26 -1.99 to -1.12 | -19.34 -22.32 to -15.98 | -15.20 -18.50 to -11.90 | 10 7 to 13 | |
1 | Rounds | -1.12 | -17.84 | -13.8 | 9 |
2 | Code | -1.12 | -19.08 | -14.9 | 10 |
3 | Time Past, Time Future | -1.12 | -19.07 | -13.7 | 10 |
4 | Castillo Interior | -1.12 | -22.32 | -18.5 | 13 |
5 | Untitled Composition for Piano and Eight Voices | -1.99 | -21.74 | -18.4 | 12 |
6 | Still Point | -1.12 | -15.98 | -11.9 | 7 |