A collection of chamber works tracing an Earth rotation through sound.
- Instrumentation
- Wind quintet, cello, piano
- Year published
- 2020
- Duration
- 55' 29"
"The recording is delightful, playful, fecund with many beautiful, fleeting sounds and interludes, a departure from much of contemporary music that is troubled by anxiety, dissonance, angst, hatred, sadness and unfulfilled desires. With “Times of Day,” MSR has responded to one of its goals to bring recognition and appreciation to new composers, including Pine, by providing world premier recordings of this work. We can now hope to hear more from Pine." Joel C. Thompson, Cherry Grove Music Review [September 2020] "[In Solar Midnight] the music explores the clarinet’s lower range to good effect, and the mostly quiet blending of wind instrument with piano is nicely handled." Mark J. Estren, InfoDad [October 2020] "These diverse chamber works by Luis Pine display an unfailing gift for lyrical tenderness... Pine’s melodic gift is used with transparent simplicity. It is especially evocative in long lyrical lines that slowly expand a settled inward mood... Another strength of this release is the high level of performance, which is all the more telling because Pine doesn’t pose many technical challenges. Nuance and sensitivity come to the fore. The Dorian Wind Quintet is delicately nimble and refined." Huntley Dent, Fanfare [November/December 2020]
