Pamela Marshall's Mandolin Music on CD
Mandolin X 4
from Plucked String
Includes Mandolin Night for
solo mandolin
The disc Mandolin X 4, released in November 1998, features
several styles of mandolin music:
- Neil Gladd, playing Mandolin Night by Pamela Marshall and a
classical mandolin/violin duo by Johann Hoffman
- Barry Mitterhoff, new acoustic and bluegrass
- Charley Rappaport, ethnic
- Terry Pender and Amy Duggins, mandolin and voice
Pamela Marshall writes about Neil's performance:
"I was thrilled by the delicacy and expressiveness of Neil's
playing. He's always told me that I wrote a difficult piece,
but he makes it
sound calm and serene in the slow middle section,
and aggressive
but precise in the active opening and ending.
The active retunings
of one of the G strings (retuning while
playing a repeated note)
after the slow section, first down a
quarter tone, and then down to Eb)
heighten the sense of drama
each time."
Mandolin Night, a virtuosic, 4-minute piece,
is available in print in Three
Centuries of Solo Mandolin Music,
edited by Neil Gladd. Neil premiered the piece in 1985 at the
Women's Music Festival at Boston University and has played it
on concert tours of Europe and the U.S.
To quote Neil Gladd's notes:
"It makes use of several unusual techniques such as picking
the strings with the thumb, glissandos, duo-style (tremolo melody
with non-tremolo accompaniment) and scordatura (unusual tunings).
One of the E strings is tuned to a C# throughout, and one of the
G strings is tuned down twice while playing."
Three Centuries of Solo Mandolin Music (PSE 029), printed collection
of mandolin music
$25.00
Mandolin X4 CD
$15.00
Both available from
Best
Music Source on EBay (formerly Plucked
String Inc.)
Enigmatica
Debut CD from the Enigmatica Mandolin Ensemble
Includes Blue-Gold Variations from Loosely
Blue for mandolin ensemble (mandolins, mandolas
and mandocellos)
Pamela Marshall writes about the CD:
"Enigmatica did a great job performing Loosely
Blue and when they
chose to add the third movement to their almost completed
CD, I was pleased and flattered. The new piece
I had written for them had found a place in their hearts."
Price $15.00 from mairmusic
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