New Sounds Live: The Knights and Bryce Dessner

November 13, 2014

From New Sounds: “Listen to new music from a collaboration between guitarist/composer Bryce Dessner and the flexible NY-based orchestral collective, The Knights. Dessner is best known as one of the twin guitarists in the rock band The National, and when he composes, he draws on Baroque and Folk music, late Romanticism and Modernism, Minimalism and the Blues, winding these elements together with the urgency and directness of a guy in a top-notch rock band. Hear a new arrangement of Tenebrae, a piece originally composed for Kronos Quartet with vocals from singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens (appearing here via tape.) There's also Dessner's work, Lachrimae (written for the Amsterdam Sinfonietta) and Raphael.”

Bryce Dessner (b. 1976): Tenebrae
Dessner: Lachrimae
Dessner: Raphael