℗ 2022 Islandia Music
Released | May 20, 2022 |
Duration | 1h 57m 02s |
Record Label | Islandia Music |
Catalogue No. | IMR011 |
Genre | Classical (Modern Era) |
A Hard Rain
Steven Schick, Shahrokh Yadegari
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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27' 10.554"
John Cage; Steven Schick |
27:54 | |||
1.2
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Zyklus, Work No. 9
Karlheinz Stockhausen; Steven Schick |
10:54 | |||
1.3
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The King of Denmark
Morton Feldman; Steven Schick |
9:08 | |||
1.4
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Janissary Music
Charles Wuorinen; Steven Schick |
12:51 | |||
1.5
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Intérieur I
Helmut Lachenmann; Steven Schick |
13:47 | |||
1.6
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Parsons' Piece
William Hibbard; Steven Schick |
10:53 | |||
Ursonate
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1.7
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I. Rondo
Kurt Schwitters; Shahrokh Yadegari; Steven Schick; Shahrokh Yadegari |
13:02 | |||
1.8
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II. Largo
Kurt Schwitters; Shahrokh Yadegari; Steven Schick; Shahrokh Yadegari |
5:05 | |||
1.9
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III. Scherzo
Kurt Schwitters; Shahrokh Yadegari; Steven Schick; Shahrokh Yadegari |
3:57 | |||
1.10
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IV. Presto
Kurt Schwitters; Shahrokh Yadegari; Steven Schick; Shahrokh Yadegari |
9:31 | |||
Digital Booklet
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Weather Systems, the new multi-album series from “supreme living virtuoso” (The New Yorker) percussionist Steven Schick, is a set of recordings of the percussion music that has been most meaningful to Schick, which will span more than 100 years and feature a diverse set of composers.
Weather Systems I: A Hard Rain includes foundational modernist works for solo percussion by John Cage (27’10.554”), Karlheinz Stockhausen (Zyklus), Morton Feldman (The King of Denmark), Charles Wuorinen (Janissary Music), Helmut Lachenmann (Intérieur I), William Hibbard (Parsons’ Piece), and Kurt Schwitters (Ursonata) with Shakrokh Yadegari, electronics composer and performer.
Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Schick has championed contemporary percussion music by commissioning or premiering more than one hundred-fifty new works. The most important of these have become core repertory for solo percussion. The title of his series, Weather Systems, and the first album, A Hard Rain, reflect Schick’s background growing up in a farming family in Iowa, always having one eye on the weather and in particular, on the rain. In his liner notes, he describes the way a deluge can lead to rebirth and relates that to his experience of the pandemic. “As I once learned to value erosion – the earth’s way of forgetting and cleansing – I am grateful that many of the trails I tramped habitually in a life-time of professional concert-giving have been washed away,” he writes.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Islandia Music Studio Masters
Tracks 8, 9 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 8, 9 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.41 -16.28 to -0.71 | -30.84 -44.09 to -26.45 | -25.85 -42.10 to -20.50 | 18 10 to 23 | |
1 | 27' 10.554" | -0.72 | -33.17 | -26.2 | 23 |
2 | Zyklus, Work No. 9 | -0.71 | -27.32 | -21.5 | 18 |
3 | The King of Denmark | -16.28 | -44.09 | -42.1 | 17 |
4 | Janissary Music | -0.72 | -26.54 | -21.4 | 17 |
5 | Intérieur I | -0.72 | -30.79 | -23.7 | 21 |
6 | Parsons' Piece | -0.72 | -27.91 | -22.2 | 18 |
7 | I. Rondo | -0.72 | -30.19 | -24.3 | 20 |
8 | II. Largo | -12.22 | -27.17 | -25.1 | 10 |
9 | III. Scherzo | -9.76 | -34.79 | -31.5 | 17 |
10 | IV. Presto | -1.54 | -26.45 | -20.5 | 16 |