Dawn Upshaw | Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records released its second album from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw, Narrow Sea, on January 22, 2021. The title piece was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish in 2017; they perform it on this recording as well. Narrow Sea comprises five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp nineteenth century collection of shape-note hymns. A composition Shaw wrote for Sō Percussion in 2012, Taxidermy, also is on the album. As Shaw, whose 2019 Nonesuch/New Amsterdam album Orange won a Grammy Award, says: “Narrow Sea combines my previous e...
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