John Luther Adams (1953-)
Everything That Rises (2017)

JACK Quartet

Everything That Rises is an elegant, ever-in-motion, virtuosic, just-intonation string quartet. The composer writes: “Everything That Rises, my fourth quartet, grew out of Sila: The Breath of the World—a concert-length choral/orchestral work composed on a rising series of sixteen harmonic clouds. This music traverses that same territory, but in a much more melodic way. Each musician is a soloist, playing throughout. Time floats and the lines spin out, always rising, in acoustically perfect intervals that grow progressively smaller as they spiral upward…until the music dissolves into the soft noise of the bows, sighing.” [CD in 6-panel wallet]