Bridge Records is pleased to issue the latest recording by Partch Ensemble, the Grammy Award winning new music group specializing in the music and instruments of the iconoclastic American composer Harry Partch. Partch’s “The Wayward” in the composer’s own words, is “a collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters—the result of my wanderings in the Western part of the United States from 1935 to 1941.” This is the world premiere recording of Partch’s complete cycle.
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LIMITED EDITION: Hardbound book, 72 pages, 38 photographs
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2019 Sequenza21: Best Recordings of 2019
2019 WQXR: Best Classical Recordings
2019 All About Jazz: Best Releases
2019 The Art Music Lounge Award
Percussive Notes Hall of Fame 2019
Color Theory (2017)
by PRISM Quartet and Sō Percussion
Music for Saxophones, Percussion and Harry Partch Instruments
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2014 Grammy Winner: Best Classical Compendium
2014 Grammy Nominee: Best Chamber Performance
Bitter Music (2011)
Harry Partch’s Depression Journal
2012 Grammy Nominee: Best Classical Compendium
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