Petra

Comes in textured sleeve. Maryanne Amacher was not widely known when she passed in 2009, at least not in the way some of her colleagues were. Having studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, and then gone on to work alongside John Cage, Anthony Braxton and others, she deserved a more prominent place in new music history
She described herself as a composer of “large-scale fixed-duration sound installations” at a time when sound art was unknown to most of us. The complexity of her work – and the inability of recording technology to satisfactorily capture it – meant that she could leave us few recordings
This new release features the 2017 U.S. premier of Amacher’s 1991 work “Petra” at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in New York. Pianists Marianne Schroeder and Stefan Tcherepnin describe exploring in the church prior to the performance, in search of the right acoustics to match the sketches Amacher left behind