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4_Kanto Kechua #2 - Gabriela Lena Frank

from Healing Modes (ICR014) by Brooklyn Rider

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Kanto Kechua #2 (2018)

In my early thirties, after receiving a devastating diagnosis of a life-threatening autoimmune disease, I paradoxically entered the most uniquely creative period of my life. Looking back, I believe I might have been grasping at what was most life-affirming to me, terrified of impending surgeries, radiation, drugs, and pain. Over several months, I composed hours of chamber music, wrote bilingual poetry and a fantasy novel of time-travel back to my ancestral homeland of pre-Conquest Perú, knitted and sewed, mastered the tarot and intricate origami, dove into the alchemy of homemade soaps and face creams, interned in bee-keeping, cultivated sourdoughs, and learned to make cheese.

This was quite the prelude, bright and desperate both, to several years of treatment when most of my creative endeavors were muted. Now, a number of years later, scarred but healthy and working actively as a composer, I still carry around melodies born from that time; and in 2017, fashioned a quartet from this oddly luminescent wellspring into the first movement of Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra, somewhat simplified for its symphonic weight. When I was approached by the brilliant string quartet Brooklyn Rider for a work on the theme of healing, I found my chance to hear these ideas for the nimbler string quartet, my original conception. The result is Kanto Kechua #2 (“Quechua Song” with Quechua being the dominant language of post-Inca Perú) now with all of its ornamental intricacies and string-crossing whirls under an achingly high if brief violin line. Throughout, motifs from native Andean folk music proliferate.

I’m exceedingly grateful to be able to, at long last, bring this music to life as I step now in wellness and creative abundance.
—Gabriela Lena Frank

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from Healing Modes (ICR014), released March 27, 2020
Brooklyn Rider: Johnny Gandelsman & Colin Jacobsen - violin
Nicholas Cords - viola
Michael Nicolas - cello

Brooklyn Rider: Johnny Gandelsman & Colin Jacobsen - violin
Nicholas Cords - viola
Michael Nicolas - cello

Recorded & mixed at Oktaven Studio, 06/11/19-06/13/19
Mastered at Zampol Productions

Recording engineer: Ryan Streber
Mixing engineer: Ryan Streber
Mastering engineer: Oscar Zambrano

Art design: Elizabeth Andia Azen

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Hailed as “the future of chamber music” (Strings), the veteran string quartet Brooklyn Rider presents eclectic repertoire and gripping performances that continue to draw rave reviews from classical, world, and rock critics alike. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” ... more

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