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Gloria Coates’s personal sound-world isunlike any other in contemporary music.Her Piano Quintet is rooted in the poetryof fellow American pioneer EmilyDickinson, with half of the quartet tuneda quarter-tone higher than the other, thestrange beauty of the music emerging inglacial landscapes and shimmeringmicrotones. Coates’s Symphony No. 10evokes the archaeological ruins of a Celtictribe, inspiring a torrent of dramaticpercussion and long held tones that curveand shake in a moving body of sound.

With thanks to Siemens Stiftung,Musica Femina Munich and theMunich Ministry of Culture for thecommission and performance of PianoQuintet, and to the California Instituteof the Arts for the invitation to aPortrait Concert at REDCAT. Specialthanks to David Rosenboom, SusanAllen and Lauren Pratt.

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Piano Quintet (2013) 22:311 Invisible, as Music 3:042 The wizard-fingers never rest 9:423 The Torrents of Eternity 5:374 A something so transporting bright 3:51Symphony No. 10 ‘Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins’(1989) 36:445 Ages coil within 12:236 The Glory of Decay 11:507 gamuts of eternity 12:25

WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGSKreutzer Quartet 1–4

Peter Sheppard Skærved, Violin IMihailo Trandafilovski, Violin II

Morgan Goff, Viola • Neil Heyde, CelloRoderick Chadwick, Piano 1–4

CalArts Orchestra 5–7

Susan Allen, Conductor 5–7

Recorded live: 21 June 2015 at the Gasteig, Munich, Germany 1–4, 13 November 2014 at REDCAT Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA 5–7

Engineers: Peter Bruemmer 1–4, John Baffa 5–7

Mastering: Matthias Ruckdaeschel and Ulrich Kraus 1–4, John Baffa 5–7 • Publisher: Gloria Coates (GEMA)Booklet notes: Peter Sheppard Skærved and Gloria CoatesCover painting: Parallel Universe (1991) by Gloria Coates

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