John McGuire - Double String Trios *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 20th March 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Double String Trios presents three major works for two string Mini-LP Gatefold CD Wallet Tipped-in 16 page bookletCotton CD Sleeve, composed by John McGuire between2012 and 2021 and conducted by AxelLindner. This release began with Walter Zimmermann asking Bernd Härpfer of Initiative Musik und Informatik Köln – GIMIKe.V. to arrange a concert premiere in celebration of McGuire’s 80th birthday.McGuire’s musical roots lie in the electronic studios of postwar Cologne, shaped through studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Krzysztof Penderecki, and grounded in the traditions of European serialism. Working with synthesisers capable of generating up to 1,800 pulses per second, he developed beautifully harmonious, crystalline music shaped by the ear into a world of owing continuities between one point and the next. Transferred to stringed instruments, that world becomes infinitely more complex —suffused with the richness and impurities of human players and their acoustic technologies. Conceived as two facing string trios in antiphonal dialogue, the music linksstudio spatial thinking with older split-ensemble traditions, unfolding through Fibonacci proportions, rotating tempi, shifting meters, and continual harmonic transposition.

TRACKLISTING
1. Jump Cuts (2009 - 2012)
2. Double Bars (2013 - 2016)
3. Playground (2016 - 2019)

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