David Mahler: Only Music Can Save Me Now
Liner Notes   Cat. No. 80702     Release Date: 2010-01-01

Nurit Tilles, piano David Mahler, voice Julie Hanify, David Mahler, Nurit Tilles, voices

David Mahler (b 1944) is an original and prolific composer, but also an active pianist, singer, arranger, choir and vocal workshop director, church musician, writer, and educator. His musical tastes reflect a deeply American sensibility. He is fascinated by the sentimental ballads of Stephen Foster, the syncopated rags of Joseph Lamb, the sonic experiments of Charles Ives and his father George, and the pioneering tape music of Richard Maxfield.

He is an important figure in the recent history of American experimental music and his music is noted for its humor, eclecticism, and deep beauty. It is probably safe to say that the seven pieces on this CD, which span a period of thirty-five years, primarily reveal the more serious and lyrical side of the David Mahler musical coin. And though three of the pieces include voice, this collection also focuses on Mahler’s ongoing exploration of his own instrument: the piano. The closing work, Only Music Can Save Me Now, is one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of classical minimalism.

Nurit Tilles

David Mahler: Only Music Can Save Me Now

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Track Listing

An alder. A catfish
David Mahler
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After Morton Feldman
David Mahler
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Deep Water
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: I. Sonorous Clang
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: II. Crossing Patterns
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: chorale (Verse I.)
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: III. Sustained Progress
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: IV. Three Against Two
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: chorale (Verse II.)
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: V. Cascades
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: Always Birds
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: chorale (Verse III.)
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: Proximate Sounds
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: chorale (Verse IV.)
David Mahler
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Day Creek Piano Works and The Teams Are Waiting in the Field: Distant Sounds
David Mahler
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Rose Blooming for Charles Ives
David Mahler
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Frank Sinatra in Buffalo
David Mahler
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Only Music Can Save Me Now
David Mahler
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