Maria de Alvear: Fuerzas / Christina Fong, viola

First in a series featuring previously unrecorded works for violin|viola
by emerging composers, this CD contains the world premiere of Maria de
Alvear's extended 1994 work for viola.

Maria de Alvear (http://mariadealvear.com) was born in Madrid (Spain) in
1960.  Some of her pieces are based on themes that are taboo to our Western
way of thinking, provoking vehement debates and interesting interactions
as a response to her work.  This means that de Alvear's work is also a
courageous dialog with the establishment.  Maria de Alvear has been very
influenced by the trips she has made to different aboriginal nations in
USA and Russia while looking for the inner essence of music and trying to
understand the roots of musical development.  "Sound has the quality of
putting a particular person's mind and body in a specific place".  Sound
combinations can work on our state of mind as precisely as a surgical
instrument, the change of one single note can cause a complete change in
the state of mind and physical location in which a person has been before.
The way these specific places work in connection with the individual state
of a person and interact with a physical and spiritual reality is the
foundation upon which Maria de Alvear bases her work.

"Maria de Alvear is the most original young composer in Europe.  I find
this conclusion inescapable." -- Kyle Gann (author, AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY; critic, THE VILLAGE VOICE), July 2002

Christina Fong (http://christinafong.com) is an active performer of newer
music composed for both violin and viola and has performed-premiered the
works of many composers including Philip Glass, Michael Nyman and Michael
Gordon.  Fong has started a series of world premiere recordings which now
includes works by composers Morton Feldman, John Cage, Maria de Alvear and
Alan Hovhaness.

"Fong has a talent for handling the demands of long-term pacing." -- THE
STRAD, July 2002

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