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And On Earth Peace: A Chanticleer Mass
Manufacturer: Warner Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000OCY6BS Release Date: 2007-05-08 |
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This mass, commissioned and performed by the superb 12-man American group Chanticleer, begins and ends with Plainsong, and is comprised of five movements by five different composers interspersed with shorter pieces by Carlo and Andrea Gabrieli and Carlo Gesualdo. Douglas J. Cuomo's Kyrie features the extreme ends of the men's vocal ranges and plays plainsong against tonal clusters; the Turkish composer Kamran Ince's Gloria is sung to a Sufi text and radiates peace; Shulamit Ran's Credo, in her native Hebrew and English, begins in a stunning martial outburst about the belief in one God and uses texts that relate to the Holocaust (occasionally spoken) to make her dramatic points; London-born Ivan Moody contributes a ravishing, medieval-tinged Sanctus, as ethereally lovely - and at points as stunningly wild - as his compositions for Trio Mediaeval; and the Irish composer Michael McGlynn's Agnus Dei begins as a solo in Gaelic, which is then underpinned with a drone in the darker voices and it ends, with grace, at a whisper. Perhaps the boldest music here is the Gesualdo, whose bizarre harmonies and discordances still can shock and awe, but the Chanticleer Mass, while not an overwhelming new work, is nonetheless, fascinating, and, as one might imagine, beautifully performed. --Robert LevineAlbum Description
With its seamless blend of twelve male voices, ranging from countertenor to bass, the San Francisco-based ensemble Chanticleer, celebrates the life of their foudner Louis I. Botto on the 10th anniversary of his death. Five composers create a mass that evolves organically, as if written by one hand and the ensemble brings it to life.
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Women of Note ~ Beach, Boulanger, Clarke, Gubaidulina, Larsen, Mendelssohn, Monk, Musgrave, Ran, Zwilich
Libby Larsen , Sofia Gubaidulina , Nadia Boulanger , Germaine Tailleferre , Amy Beach , Lili Boulanger , Ellen Taaffe Zwilich , Rebecca Clarke , Clara Wieck Schumann , Sofiya Asgatovna Gubaydulina , Meredith Monk , Shulamit Ran , Thea Musgrave , Galina Ustvolskaya , Royal Philharmonic Chorus , Minnesota Orchestra , Women's Philharmonic , Louisville Orchestra , English Chamber Orchestra , New Zealand Chamber Orchestra , Joann Falletta , Joel Revzen , James Sedares , Nicholas Braithwaite , Arleen Auger , Nina Flyer , and Chi Fun Lee Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001SKH Release Date: 1997-08-19 |
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20th Century Voices in America
Manufacturer: Vox (Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001K52 Release Date: 1995-09-26 |
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Compassion: A Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin
Philip Glass , Edna Michell , Allen Ginsberg , and Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005LMLD Release Date: 2001-06-19 |
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Fifteen of the world's greatest living composers contributed works for Compassion, the musical tribute to Yehudi Menuhin and the enlightened ideals of the late violin maestro. The lineup is impressive and seemingly spans the entire spectrum of contemporary composing styles: John Tavener, Hans Werner Henze, Poul Ruders, Iannis Xenakis, Lukas Foss, Philip Glass, and numerous others. Oddly, the music they've written is, for the most part, quite similar--short, somber pieces that, not surprisingly, emphasize the violin. There are some impressive achievements, however. Somei Satoh's "Innocence" for soprano, violin, and cellos sounds a little like the "holy minimalism" of Arvo Pärt; Glass's "Echorus" features the narration of Allen Ginsberg; and Foss's "Romance" pursues a fading-Americana theme and includes an excerpt from Walt Whitman. The six-minute work for violin, string orchestra, and soprano also has a spirited mood, which is quite refreshing on this sobering disc. Violinist and Menuhin collaborator Edna Michell lovingly plays all these pieces with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. It's a unique tribute to a unique figure in Classical music, but it's not for everyone. For an even better sense of Menuhin's magic, check out one of his legendary early recordings. --Jason Verlinde
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Music By Shulamit Ran
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ASIN: B000003GJA Release Date: 1995-05-16 |
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The vibrant music of Shulamit Ran is heard in this collection of six of her recent compositions. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music and composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony, Ran's music blends high-energy, dense compositional thought, with a penchant for long-spun melismatic melodies. Born in Israel, Shulamit Ran came to the United States as a fourteen year old. Soon after, Leonard Bernstein invited her to perform one of her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic. Ran's music combines eastern melodic and formal influences with a dramatically argued sense of structure.
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Chamber Music of Shulamit Ran
Ran , and Peabody Trio Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000066F3R Release Date: 2002-05-28 |
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That Shulamit Ran (b. 1949) has mastered clarity and the vital essence of composition, the art of communication, is clearly evinced by the four pieces on this disc, two solo worksFantasy Variations (1979/rev.1984) for cello and Verticals (1982) for pianoand two works for trio, Excursions (1980) and Soliloquy (1997). Ran's fierce musical individuality can be placed in a tradition with the Expressionists of the second Viennese schoolSchoenberg, Webern, and Berg. The works from the 1970s and late 1980s in particular reveal a rich chromaticism that cycles quickly through all twelve pitches. Angular and sometimes pointillistic melodies with large intervals dramatically shift from one emotional gesture to another. However, to date, Ran has never written a piece that has remained strictly within serialist parameters. Rather, in describing her style she coined the phrase "freely atonal," with an emphasis on the word "freely." To make parallels with the second Viennese school, however, we might look more aptly to Alban Berg's lush, romantic, and dramatic compositional style. It is this sense of the dramatic that is often mentioned by reviewers, and Ran's own expression marks in scores often read more like stage directions than like musical terms. Ultimately, a composition by Shulamit Ran tends to feels like a journey or an adventurethere is always a sense of motion and progression, through many emotions and dramatic outbursts, through moments of calm and ethereal lucidity, always moving toward centers of harmonic gravity.
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Points of Entry: Contemporary Works for Solo Flute by American Women
Manufacturer: Capstone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000GW8RES Release Date: 2006-08-22 |
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New Music from Bowling Green, Vol. IV
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ASIN: B0009ETW0Q Release Date: 2005-05-01 |
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Xylem is a short, energetic piece that amplifies a microscopic world, creating perpetual motion punctuated by explosive bursts. It takes its name from the tissue made of long tubular open-ended cells that conducts water from the soil up to the various parts of plants. Orianna Webb currently teaches composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she is a founding director of the Young Composers Program. Shulamit Ran writes: My having been commissioned by the National Flute Association for a flute concerto in celebration of that organizations year 2000 convention was, for me, a much-relished opportunity to further explore the direction I found myself pursuing in earlier works. The work was premiered on August 19, 2000, with Patricia Spencer, flutist, and Ransom Wilson, conductor. Samuel Adler writes: Nostalgia plays a role in the creation of many works of art. This was certainly the case in my writing this particular orchestral work which was composed for the Texas Little Symphony and John Giordano in the summer of 1982. For a long time now, I have had a love affair with Texas and also with music of the rather distant past. The resulting work was one which I had wanted to do for many years, namely, a dance suite based on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque themes. These dances are treated as recompositions rather than arrangements. While the actual tunes in most of them are from a bygone era, the compositional techniques employed are of the 20th century and result in a metamorphosis of the old material. In other words, it is as if a contemporary composer took a journey into the past, fell in love with seven dance forms, brought them back to our century and rewrote them for he felt they still give off the same charm, excitement and contemporaneousness which they did when they were originally conceived. Chen Yi is currently the Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She received her bachelors and masters degrees in music composition from the Central Conservatory in Beijing, and a doctorate from Columbia University. Her composition teachers include Chou, Davidovsky, Wu and Goehr. She has served as composer-in-residence for the Womens Philharmonic, the vocal ensemble Chanticleer and the Aptos Creative Arts Center (1993-1996) supported by Meet the Composer. Kevin Putss Inspiring Beethoven was commissioned by the Phoenix Symphony, Hermann Michael, conductor, for their Beethoven Festival in January 2002. The work is a musical tale of Beethoven transcending the grim realities of his life and finding the inspiration to compose the joyous first movement of his Symphony No. 7. Puts has received degrees from the Eastman and Yale University Schools of Music, and currently serves as assistant professor of composition at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Shulamit Ran: Songs and Chamber Music
Manufacturer: Centaur ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0006BGX3G Release Date: 2004-11-30 |
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With every leaf a miracle
Kent Leslie Manufacturer: Hard Cor Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000O78VAA Release Date: 2007-02-27 |
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Contemporary chamber music for horn by living composers.Music Composers: