Shake the Tree, by Robert Carl

Shake the Tree

by Robert Carl

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1.	Shake the Tree (2005) for piano four-hands 21:36	info	buy track
2.	Braided Bagatelles: Cadenza 02:25	info	buy track
3.	Braided Bagatelles: Marking the Field 02:38	info	buy track
4.	Braided Bagatelles: Stretching 03:22	info	buy track
5.	Braided Bagatelles: Marching 02:27	info	buy track
6.	Braided Bagatelles: Floating 02:40	info	buy track
7.	Braided Bagatelles: Flying 04:51	info	buy track
8.	Piano Sonata No.2, “The Big Room” (1993-99): Clouds are Scattering 06:16	info	buy track
9.	Piano Sonata No.2, “The Big Room” (1993-99): The Big Room 09:05	info	buy track
10.	Piano Sonata No.2, “The Big Room” (1993-99): The World Turned Upside Down 11:44	info	buy track

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My piano music is a continuing diary of my growth as a composer. And that’s ironic, since I’m a very modest pianist. But starting with my first sonata, “Spiral Dances” (1984), it’s been the medium where I can test out ideas big and small, some very spacious and ambitious, others occasional, experimental, and lighter-hearted. The culmination of this approach is Shake the Tree, perhaps the most virtuosic and architecturally ambitious work I’ve ever written. Two of its major predecessors are Braided Bagatelles, a bravura evocation of variation form, mixed with elements that verge on Dada, and my Piano Sonata No. 2, “The Big Room”, whose three movements represent three very different approaches of how to evoke space musically, and whose last movement became the genesis of a breakthrough eponymous orchestral work.

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released April 1, 2024

Originally released on innova Recordings #857
© Robert Carl, 2013.

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Robert Carl Hartford, Connecticut

Robert Carl has worked to create music that creates a sense of space. This exists in a space “between the notes” that allows for both spareness and complexity. Time itself also opens into the space, as premonitions and echoes of events circle and spiral one another. A key to this practice is his exploration of overtone-related harmony, in both equal temperament and just intonation. ... more