Inspiration for Michael Hersch's tone poem came by way of Michael Mazur's haunting 1960's images of inmates from a Rhode Island psychiatric hospital. The work finds a genuine grain of human experience in a dark, difficult place. The highly regarded Blair String Quartet, who gave the work's premiere and for whom it was written, deliver a definitive account. 'It is the sound of a string quartet playing with rage and inconsolable sadness.'

Tracklist:

Images From A Closed Ward: I. —
Images From A Closed Ward: II. —
Images From A Closed Ward: III. —
Images From A Closed Ward: IV. —
Images From A Closed Ward: V. —
Images From A Closed Ward: VI. —
Images From A Closed Ward: VII. —
Images From A Closed Ward: VIII. —
Images From A Closed Ward: IX. —
Images From A Closed Ward: X. —
Images From A Closed Ward: XI. —
Images From A Closed Ward: XII. —
Images From A Closed Ward: XIII. —

UPC: 726708688424
Label: Innova Records
Release Date: 2.25.14
Format: CD

Blair String Quartet - Images from a Closed Ward (CD)