Air in Motion

Description

Though the string ensemble is the common thread in all of these recorded works, their inspiration and ideas are quite varied. In String Quartet No.4, dynamic shapes and configurations – spiral, waveform, labyrinth – are the catalysts for each movement, whereas String Quartet No.6 (“Canticle”) invokes the idea of ritual – coloured by the use of small, bell-like disks called crotales.

Air in Motion brings flautist Carol Wincenc into the ensemble, adding a new dimension suggested by the flow of air through a column of metal.

Jalbert’s first album for Orchid, String Theory, was praised by BBC Music Magazine: “There’s a thrilling freneticism to Jalbert’s music and it’s a vein which runs through most of these premiere recordings”.