SUSTENANCE

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Vineet Shende (b. 1973)
Sonetos de Amor (2003)

1. Soneto II- With Blossoming Joy
2. Soneto XLVI- With Tenderness and Wonder
3. Soneto LXVII- With Driving Intensity (listen)
4. Soneto LXXXI

Peter Gilbert (b. 1975)

5. Passage I (listen)

Orianna Webb (b. 1974)

6. Sustenance Variations (2004) (listen)

7. Passage II (Gilbert)

Adam B. Silverman (b. 1973)

8. Three Fell Swoops (2004)* (listen)

9. Passage III

10. For Irving Lippel (2004) (listen)

11. Passage IV (Gilbert) (listen)

Joseph Pereira (b. 1974)

12. Bento Box (2001)(listen)

13. Passage V (Gilbert)

Seung-Ah Oh (b. 1969)

14. So-Ri I (2001)

15. Final Passage (Gilbert)

* all works heard in their premiere recordings

Recorded 3/05-8/05 in Huntington, Long Island, and New York City, and 1/07 at William Paterson University, NJ
Engineered by Ryan Streber
Produced by Peter Gilbert and Daniel Lippel
Design by Ellen Butters

Reviews

"In contrast, the six composers of the works on Sustenance have deliberately created a cohesive album-as-work. Where dim sum (and Dim Sum) is a whole bunch of little things to take in more or less at once, this work is a series of courses, each section discreet but in its larger place, in proportion and harmony with what comes before and after. In between songs and chamber pieces, Peter Gilbert has composed electronic "Passages" (perhaps the wine for each course?) not always explicitly musically derived from the pieces before or after but structurally and atmospherically linking them so that the whole 75 minutes plays without break. It's very interesting and beautifully performed. Elizabeth Weigle singing Vineet Shende's Sonetos de Amor is particularly outstanding. Orianna Webb's Sustenance Variations for Flexible Music, a quartet of percussion, piano, saxophones, and guitar, is exciting, even in the still passages, and entirely convincing. John Link's duo For Irving Lippel
has some captivating, restrained moments where the resonances of guitar and vibraphone are allowed to shimmer and blur in an exquisite way. The whole forms a pleasing arc of textural and timbral density."

Parsons, American Record Guide, March/April 2008