For years individuals have loved the great thing about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music. Timbre refers back to the high quality of musical sounds. Timbre lets you distinguish a saxophone from a flute, for example, even when each instruments are taking part in the same notes. Timbre also allows you to hear the difference between solo singers and a choir of singers.
There are a lot of examples of nice composers who went by means of life largely unnoticed and achieved only mediocre outcomes. We must keep in mind that in these times the idea of record gross sales and even recurring royalties from publishing rights merely had not been conceived of yet. You composed a bit of music, bought it outright to a publisher and that was that.
This eye-opening album is an invitation to think about the familiar — whether it’s the centuries-outdated form of the string quartet or, in the case of Valencia,” the everyday orange. After an opening of glistening harmonics and pizzicato that is like piqued curiosity, Ms. Shaw’s music takes off to find stunning melodic turns with irresistible pleasure and marvel. J.B.