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Sitting in the dental hygienist’s chair, my ears slathered with Classic FM, I cried out for something like this richly varied album where one composer was born in 1656 and another in 1996. I kept thinking as the polisher whirred that there must be a seat in hell for a DJ who programs Stanley Myers’ guitar Cavatina from The Deer Hunter alongside Beethoven’s phone-ring Für Elise. (If there isn’t, I’ll endow one.)
Arirang opens with a solo cello piece by Marin Marais (1656-1928) and follows with another by Caroline Shaw (born 1982). The three sections of Ernest Bloch’s suite From Jewish Life, exactly a hundred years old, are interspersed with new works by Anna Pidgorna, Iman Habibi and Franz Schubert (bet you weren’t expecting him). Debussy’s near-deathbed cello sonata shuts things down.
Daniel Hamin Go is the solo cellist. The recording was made in Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio and I can’t help feeling the quirky pianist would have endorsed the eclecticism of this project. If only other record labels could remember that their primary reason for existence is to surprise us. Go, get.
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