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Thursday, January 20, 2005
Earthshine, Beata Moon
Beata Moon, The Corigliano Quartet, et al.
The Beata Moon Ensemble
Bibimbop Records

height=Beata Moon is a young composer, pianist and ensemble leader whose highly admired debut recording Perigee & Apogee focused on works in which the piano played the pivotal role. This is perhaps natural; composers who are also professional performers often write pieces that favor their own instrument. In her sophomore effort, Earthshine, Moon has greatly expanded her sonic world with pieces for solo alto saxophone and marimba, an electric guitar/piano duo, voices, and, most impressively, a charming String Quartet (subtitled “Homage to Bela”) and a Wind Quartet that may be the strongest and most memorable piece on the recording.

She is greatly abetted in this generous outing by some first-rate musicians-- the Corigliano Quartet, saxophonist Brian Sacawa, marimba whiz Makoto Nakura, electric guitarist Kevin Gallagher, soprano Julianne Borg, baritone Nmon Ford and various members of her own Beata Moon Ensemble.

Of course, there are a couple of short piano solos included but Moon seems most interested here in stretching her timbral palette and exploring larger, more complex avenues for her compositional skills. Her music seems happily divorced from the style wars, easily treading the line between tonality and dissonance with precision and skill, and delivering moments of true insight and beauty. Earthshine is an impressive effort and surely a sign of even bigger and better things to come.


posted by Jerry Bowles 1:05 AM


 


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