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Matt Haimovitz

PRIMAVERA II - the rabbits

Oxingale - PENTATONE
Release Date: February 4, 2022

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1 Kyrie (from Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae) by Josquin des Prez (arr. Matt Haimovitz) (2:36)  
2 Beyond the Order of Things (After Josquin) by Missy Mazzoli (4:32)  
3 Cyclical Rabbits by Niloufar Nourbakhsh (6:12)  
4 Volplaning Tomeka Reid (5:28)  
5 Spring Figures by Nico Muhly (4:56)  
6 Two Rhapsodies of Spring by Juri Seo (7:25)  
7 Spring Song by Gordon Getty (1:56)  
8 Theme and Variants by David Balakrishnan (3:39)  
9 1 3 2 3 by Sky Macklay (5:26)  
10 Afro-dite by Nia Imani Franklin (6:04)  
11 Compulsive Bloom by Jennifer Jolley (4:25)  
12 Shandro:Chaline:Both by Alex Weston (7:20)  
13 A negative space by Nina Shekhar (5:13)  
14 Beseeching by Texu Kim (4:40)  
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On February 4, 2022, multi-Grammy nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz’s latest recording, PRIMAVERA II the rabbits, will be released on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. The new digital album features the next 13 of 81 new pieces written for Haimovitz, commissioned by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT, also featuring Haimovitz’s new arrangement of Josquin de Prez’s Kyrie (from Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae). The project asks composers to respond to Sandro Botticelli’s enigmatic painting, Primavera, and the prophetic large-scale triptych, Primavera 2020, by contemporary artist Charline von Heyl. Haimovitz recorded the album in May 2021 at von Heyl’s artist studio near downtown Marfa, Texas. More information about the project, composers, and pieces is available at THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT’s online hub, www.theprimaveraproject.com.
ABOUT THE ALBUM:

PRIMAVERA II the rabbits is the second of six albums in a momentous series encompassing 81 world premieres for solo cello. This digital album presents 13 new commissions by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT for groundbreaking, multi-GRAMMY nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz. Each composer responds to Sandro Botticelli’s enigmatic painting, Primavera, and the prophetic large-scale triptych, Primavera 2020, by world-renowned contemporary artist Charline von Heyl. The album also features Haimovitz's new arrangement of Josquin de Prez’s Kyrie (from Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae).

PRIMAVERA II the rabbits begins where PRIMAVERA I the wind left off, referencing the time of Botticelli. Haimovitz plays all four parts of his arrangement of Josquin des Prez’s Kyrie from Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, bridging to Missy Mazzoli’s deconstruction of Josquin in her haunting Beyond the Order of Things (After Josquin). Haimovitz also overlays the four cellos of Texu Kim’s Beseeching, entwining Native-American rain dance drumming and old Korean melodies in voices of desperation and hope.

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