{"id":937,"date":"2017-03-16T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/?p=937"},"modified":"2022-01-28T23:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T04:27:23","slug":"pierre-jalbert-mch-sf-chronicle-disc-review-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/pierre-jalbert-mch-sf-chronicle-disc-review-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Breathtaking beauty, lyricism and intricacy&#8221; in Pierre Jalbert&#8217;s chamber works on new disc from the Copland House"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"headline\">Pierre Jalbert, \u2018Secret Alchemy\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"byline\">By Joshua Kosman\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"datestamp\"> <span class=\"published\">March 16, 2017<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre Jalbert\u00a0New music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American composer Pierre Jalbert writes music of considerable elegance, but not even that knowledge was enough to prepare me for the breathtaking beauty, lyricism and intricacy of the chamber works on this new disc from the Copland House in New York State. There are four pieces included here, and each of them creates a distinctive sound world without turning its back on traditional formal strategies \u2014 which is part of what makes the music so alluring. The piano quartet that gives the disc its title, for instance, is cast in a familiar four-movement format, yet the music shimmers with an otherworldly strangeness that is mesmerizing. In the two movements of his Piano Trio No. 1, Jalbert contrasts fierce, needling energy with a soulful conclusion steeped in Gregorian chant, and the disc concludes with the quintet \u201cCrossings,\u201d a zesty reverie rooted in the folk music of French Canadian culture. Every work gets a robust and ingratiating performance from the chamber players of Music from Copland House. \u2014 Joshua Kosman<\/p>\n<p>PIERRE JALBERT<\/p>\n<p>SECRET ALCHEMY<\/p>\n<p>COPLAND HOUSE BLEND<\/p>\n<p>Read Full Review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/music\/article\/Pierre-Jalbert-Secret-Alchemy-11007050.php\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Jalbert, \u2018Secret Alchemy\u2019 By Joshua Kosman\u00a0\u00a0 March 16, 2017 Pierre Jalbert\u00a0New music The American composer Pierre Jalbert writes music of considerable elegance, but not even that knowledge was enough to prepare me for the breathtaking beauty, lyricism and intricacy of the chamber works on this new disc from the Copland House in New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"related-artist":[11,18,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press","8":"related-artist-michael-boriskin","9":"related-artist-music-from-copland-house","10":"related-artist-pierre-jalbert","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"related-artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related-artist?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}