Thirty Nine Pages

Paul Whitty works with both amplified and electronic music with ensemble and with acoustic instruments. Recently he has been engaged in a series of interventions in pre-existing scores - undertaking an almost archaeological examination of the materials found there. Thirty-nine pages filters and re-organizes each page of the Henle Edition of Cesar Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano in a Major. Fragments of the Franck can be heard emerging - a single note, a chord, a phrase - from the often stark and simple textures of the surrounding material. This recording is superbly performed by artists who have built fine reputations in the world of new music.