Bryce Dessner – Tenebre

For Bryce Dessner, music is an expansive and borderless territory. As a composer of classical music, film scores and in the band The National – of which he is founding member and guitarist - the breadth and level of his creative output is extensive. In 2017, he first heard Ensemble Resonanz perform his music during his residency at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. This album assembles four of Dessner’s most recent and important works for strings: a staggering full string orchestra version of his popular masterpiece »Aheym« followed by a new edition of his captivating string quartet »Tenebre«, featuring an appearance by vocal sensation Moses Sumney. Dessner’s string trio »Skrik« appears as a world premiere recording, while his orchestral piece »Lachrimae«, referencing the musical world of John Dowland, completes this collection of a multi-faceted composer.