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Paula Diehl: Separation

Release Date: 06/10/2016
Label: Navona Catalog #: 6044 Spars Code: n/a
Composer:  Paula Diehl Performer:  Albert Goken ,  Bradford [Tenor Vocal] Gleim ,  Chiharu Naruse ,  Jonathan Roberts  ...  Conductor:  Petr Vronsky ,  Robert Stankovsky ,  Vladimír Válek ,  Vit Micka Number of Discs: 2
Recorded in: Stereo Length: 1 Hours 53 Mins.

Paula Diehl’s music is written in a compositional system called Separation which she created in 1978 after her postgraduate studies at American University and Temple University, and has been developing since. The basic concept behind Separation is the gradual detachment of interlocking perfect 4th intervals through a series of phases.

The double-album SEPARATION is a representative cross-section of Diehl’s music with an emphasis on the last three decades, the period in which her compositional voice flowered most fully. Expansive orchestral scores such as Insiders (1994) and more intimate chamber works like On Course (1984) speak clearly to the singularity of Diehl’s style and provide a nice reminder that it is often those on the Read more periphery, those who are pushed outside instead of welcomed inside, who frequently have fascinating things to say.

"Paula Diehl...is an important modern voice whose clearly articulated and beautifully inventive ways mark her as a major contributor to new music, as indeed very much new in her approach and major in the sublimity and creative expression of her vision."

-- Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

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