Healing Modes (2020)
Grammy® Nominated (63rd Grammy® Awards - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance)
The
healing properties of music have been recognized from ancient Greek civilization to the field of modern neuroscience and expressed in countless global traditions. Healing Modes presents Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet opus 132 in a minor, which contains in its third movement one of the most profound expressions of healing in the string quartet repertoire, alongside five new commissions exploring the subject of healing from a wide range of cultural and historical perspectives. The composers include Reena Esmail, Gabriela Lena Frank, Matana Roberts, and Pulitzer Prize winners Du Yun and Caroline Shaw.
"(Healing Modes)...could not possibly be more relevant or necessary than it is currently." –The New York Times
"I don’t believe I’ve ever experienced the radical emotional range of Op. 132’s long, slow movement — with its liberating, dancing interjections — more intensely than when listening to the entirety of Healing Modes.” –The New York Times
Caroline Shaw - Schisma
Gabriela Lena Frank - Kanto Kechua #2
Matana Roberts - borderlands
Du Yun - my own achilles heel
Reena Esmail - Zeher
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet Opus 132
Composers & Collaborators
From upper left: Caroline Shaw, Gabriela Lena Frank, Du Yun, Reena Esmail & Matana Roberts