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Orange CD + MP3 Bundle exclusiveOn Pulitzer Prizewinning composer Caroline Shaw's album Orangethe first release in a partnership between New Amsterdam and Nonesuch RecordsAttacca Quartet performs six of her pieces for string quartet. The string quartet form "has existed for hundreds of years, but there's something, for me, beautiful and ritualistic about coming back to that form," says Shaw. "It's something familiar, and yet you can keep on opening these doors and diving down these

folk-based vocal arrangements

" the demos a "real revelation

"This is my reaction to being assaulted by information

Hard Bargain comprises 13 tracks

in many ways

including several of her own songs as well as those of other writers

half woman

pays homage to Bollywood composer R

" says Mariza

the first piece Glass wrote for Kronos

" The Independent concludes: "It's all dazzlingly virtuosic and evocative

Songs were chosen