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Sufjan Stevens & Timo Andres
The Decalogue
Asthmatic Kitty
- Cat No: AKR135lp
- updated:2020-01-08
"The Decalogue," an album scored by SUFJAN STEVENS and performed by pianist TIMO ANDRES. The standard edition LP is now in stock.
The title of "The Decalogue" has a touch of the grandiose: it means "The Ten Commandments." Yet this score, composed by Sufjan Stevens for a dance work choreographed by Justin Peck that premiered with the New York City Ballet in May of 2017, is quiet and experimental. Stevens's piano score, as played and recorded by Timo Andres, sounds like etudes in the Romantic-modernist tradition, as if prompted by Debussy. With "The Decalogue," coming digitally, and on vinyl and CD, Sufjan is making—gently, without ostentation—new departures.
Standard edition LP includes 140-gram vinyl, jacket, and download card.
To purchase the songbook separately, click here.
Standard edition LP includes 140-gram vinyl, jacket, and download card.
To purchase the songbook separately, click here.
TIMO ANDRES performs ten scores written for "The Decalogue," a work by Justin Peck, who has made his name as the new resident choreographer of the New York City Ballet — the company founded by George Balanchine and known for its cutting-edge, deeply musical sensibility. Peck and Sufjan have been collaborators ever since "Year of the Rabbit," and are also known for the ballet "Principia," based on Isaac Newton's "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," as well as "BQE." (Original Japanese text by Saito)