{"id":175,"date":"2011-01-26T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlc.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2011-02-04T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:13:19","slug":"american-record-guide-new-lullaby-cd-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/american-record-guide-new-lullaby-cd-review\/","title":{"rendered":"American Record Guide New Lullaby CD Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Record Guide<\/a>, January\/February 2001, p. 227<\/p>\n

New Lullaby<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Composers: Job, Feist, Trester, Wheeler, Siegfried, Small, Stolz, Cooman, McDonald, Vayo, Leisner, Schwarts, Vigil
\nAaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
\nSix String Sound 888-01 \u2013 53 minutes<\/p>\n

Mr. Larget-Caplan directs the New Lullaby Project from his home base in Boston.\u00a0 Here he has collected 14 lullabies from 13 composers, most not well known (only David Leisner was familiar to me, and he as one of our finest guitarists who also composes).\u00a0 All the pieces were composed between 2006 and 2009.\u00a0 Each is well crafted, and each performance is well played and sensitive.\u00a0 The notes include descriptions of each piece by its composer.<\/p>\n

Larget-Caplan says in his introduction that the works are of two types, the first consoling and protective, but a second type that is quietly disturbing, as if on the edge of a sleep troubled with bad dreams.\u00a0 They are presented in what might be described as ascending order of weirdness.\u00a0 The early pieces are all fairly conventional, pretty, and soothing.\u00a0 Others near the end have other qualities.\u00a0 David Vayo\u2019s \u2018Berceuse\u2019 is the longest piece, at seven minutes, and asks the performer to sing (or, in Larget-Caplan\u2019s case, to moan) and whistle.\u00a0 His notes don\u2019t indicate that his intent was anything other than consoling, but the effect is rather creepy.<\/p>\n

David Leisner\u2019s \u2018Disturbed, a Lullaby\u2019 is indeed disturbing, with a non-tonal, pointillistic texture, as if he were attempting a quiet irony.\u00a0 The final work, Ryan Vigil\u2019s \u2018Shhhh\u2019, is done entirely in harmonics, with three strings tuned to alternate pitches.\u00a0 The work is five minutes of nearly inaudible sounds that get even softer as the piece progresses.<\/p>\n

It will come as no surprise that I don\u2019t recommend that you hear this recording all in one sitting.\u00a0 Every piece is quiet (don\u2019t wake the baby!), and that can become monotonous.\u00a0 Some pieces are charming, some disturbing.\u00a0 –Keaton<\/p>\n

Kenneth Keaton is a professor of music at a Florida university and has earned three degrees in classical guitar performance.<\/em><\/p>\n

New Lullaby is available on Amazon, CDBaby and itunes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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