Music for Heart and Breath

Album by Richard Reed Parry & yMusic & Kronos Quartet & Nico Muhly & Bryce Dessner & Aaron Dessner

Music for Heart and Breath is a studio album by Canadian musician Richard Reed Parry, released in 2014. The album presents experimental contemporary-classical and chamber music that uses breath and heartbeat as organising motifs, combining sparse instrumental textures, minimalism and subtle electronic elements, and marks Parry's movement from his role in Arcade Fire into composing site-specific and modern-classical works.

Music for Heart and Breath by Richard Reed Parry - album cover

First released: 9th June 2014

Classical

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1.
Quartet for Heart and Breath
6:45
2.
Heart and Breath Sextet
14:59
3.
For Heart, Breath, and Orchestra
12:22
4.
Interruptions (Heart and Breath Nonet): I. Miniature I
1:22
5.
Interruptions (Heart and Breath Nonet): II. String Peaks
2:13
6.
Interruptions (Heart and Breath Nonet): III. Wind's Idea
3:29
7.
Interruptions (Heart and Breath Nonet): IV. Miniature II
1:38
8.
Interruptions (Heart and Breath Nonet): V. Sticks/Tension
4:16
9.
Interruptions (Heart and Breath Nonet): VI. French Guitars
3:23
10.
Interruptions (Heart and Breath Nonet): VII. Freeform Winds/String Drones
3:43
11.
Duet for Heart and Breath
4:27
12.
Quartet for Heart and Breath (for Kronos)
6:42