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Nonesuch Records releases Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award�winning composer Caroline Shaw�s�Evergreen, performed by Shaw and Attacca Quartet, on September 9, 2022.�Evergreen�is five original works by Shaw: two suites written for string quartet�Three Essays and The Evergreen�two pieces written for string quartet and voice, and one piece written solely for string quartet. It also includes an interpretation of a twelfth century French poem, which the Quartet performs with Shaw on vocals.

Following 2019�s�Orange, which featured six of Shaw�s pieces for string quartet and earned Attacca Quartet a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance,�Evergreen�was built around�the titular four-song suite, first performed by the Viano String Quartet in 2021. Shaw describes the work as an offering to�one particular tree in an evergreen forest on Swiikw (Galiano Island), off the west coast of Canada. The album also includes�Three Essays, a suite�written for and premiered by Calidore String Quartet that addresses language�s power to stir emotion and spread information and ideas through written, spoken, and digital forms; And So, a piece composed for the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale and mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter as part of Shaw�s�Is a Rose�trilogy; Blueprint, a work originally composed for the Aizuri Quartet and relating closely to an early string quartet by Beethoven; Other Song,�a piece�written for the National Symphony Orchestra and�originally released on Shaw's�2021 solo vocal debut,�Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part; and an interpretation of�Cant voi l�aube, a poem by twelfth�century�trouv�re, Gace Brul�.