Kyle Gann Long Night Cahill - Cb0019 - Contemporary - by Cold Blue

Long Night is exquisitely drifting, ever-unfolding music for three pianos, with all parts wonderfully performed by new-music- pianist Sarah Cahill. Gann writes about the work: “I wrote Long Night very much under the influence of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, impressed particularly by his phenomenology of moods and his disavowal of personality as a unified, linear consciousness. I wanted a piece that was a series of moods, connected neither linearly nor abruptly, but in overlapping discontinuity; and a unity that was not felt moment to moment, but that would leap out in unpredictable motives and reminiscences. . . . Each piano part is constructed in repeating loops, whose lengths can usually be altered at will by the pianists, and the relationship between the pianos is unsynchronized and aleatory—which is why, for a recording, only one pianist is necessary. Part of the discontinuity is that the first four sections are in C, the fifth in A, and the last two in C#.” (25-minute CD EP, in digipak)