Attacca Quartet & Caroline Shaw – Orange Vinyl LP 2020

Track Listing

1. Entr’acte
2. Valencia
3. Plan & Elevation: I. The Ellipse
4. Plan & Elevation: II. The Cutting Garden
5. Plan & Elevation: III. The Herbaceous Border
6. Plan & Elevation: IV. The Orangery
7. Plan & Elevation: V. The Beech Tree
8. Punctum
9. Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.a
10. Limestone & Felt

Orange, which features six of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Caroline Shaws pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively feature works by Shaw. It is also the first release in a new partnership between the two record labels, established with the goal of enabling contemporary American composers to realize creative ambitions that might not otherwise be achievable.Shaw describes the world she built for Orange as a garden that she and Attacca Quartet are tending. She used the groups centuries-old combination of two violins (Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga), viola (Nathan Schram), and