Kendall / Pendlebury - Kendall Reich Riley Tallis [CD]

Violist Nic Pendlebury presents a unique album of music transcribed for electric viola. Many of the transcriptions were made by Nic Pendlebury himself, and the album title Multiple reflects his choice of works with many different parts, articulated here in entirely fresh ways by using loops and multitracking to create layers of sound. As a founder member of the Smith Quartet, Nic Pendlebury has been at the forefront of contemporary music for over 30 years, commissioning works and collaborating with many of the world's most celebrated composers. This love of new and recent music is reflected on this album, which features arrangements of Steve Reich's mesmerising Electric Counterpoint and Terry Riley's hypnotic Dorian Reeds, as well as Variations on the Fourth Tune by the versatile John Ashton Thomas and Bloom by emerging composer Elliott Kendall. The album's tour de force dates from a much earlier epoch: Thomas Tallis's 40-part choral work Spem in Alium is transformed into 40 electric viola lines, revealing fascinating details of this musical masterpiece.