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WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
John CORIGLIANO (b. 1938) Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (version for amplified soprano and sextet) Vincent HO (b. 1975) Gryphon Realms Laura Hynes, Amplified Soprano • Mary Sullivan, Flutes • Cédric Blary, Clarinets Kyle Eustace, Percussion • Land’s End Ensemble • Karl Hirzer
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John Corigliano is one of America’s most distinguished composers whose music, as Leonard Slatkin writes, ‘belongs to the world’. Corigliano originally conceived his setting of Bob Dylan songs Mr. Tambourine Man for voice and piano, then orchestrated it (this version can be heard on 8.559331) and some years later transcribed it for chamber forces. The performance heard here is the first recording of this final version. The cycle traces a dramatic journey, from exuberance to premonition, and finally to a vision of the victory of ideas. It is coupled with Vincent Ho’s Gryphon Realms , a virtuosic and mystical work for piano trio, coursing with serpent-like motifs and primal energy. Key Features: • John Corigliano is ‘one of the most widely praised and highly regarded American composers of his generation’ ( Fanfare ). His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, five GRAMMY Awards, an Academy Award for The Red Violin , and have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. • The version of Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man for soprano and full symphony orchestra is on 8.559331; Fanfare wrote that ‘Soprano Hila Plitmann seems to render the songs with just the qualities the composer was seeking, while the Buffalo Philharmonic realises the extraordinarily varied orchestrations brilliantly.’ • Vincent Ho ’s music has been called ‘brilliant and compelling’ by The New York Times . He has won multiple awards including five Juno Awards nominations. Corigliano has called Ho’s Arctic Symphony ‘a beautiful work that evokes the Far North in a very special way.’
8.579160 Release Date: 12 Jul 2024 Companion Titles – John Corigliano, Composer
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Click to listen to CORIGLIANO, J.: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan: Masters of Wars
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Vytautas BACEVIČIUS (1905–1970) Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 Piano Concerto No. 1 ‘Sur des thèmes lituaniens’ Piano Concerto No. 2 Symphony No. 3 Gabrielius Alekna, Piano • Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra • Christopher Lyndon-Gee Vytautas Bacevičius’s life was defined by exile and migration during the turbulent first half of the 20th century, but his impressive catalogue represents a remarkable creative spirit undimmed by adversity. Composed while studying in Paris, the youthful Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 represent Bacevičius’s nostalgia for his native Lithuania in their unselfconscious and spirited use of folk melodies, all of which contribute to their light and celebratory nature. Written not long after his arrival in the United States in 1944, the Third Symphony expresses an early optimism for the composer’s new home in its energetic, positive and confident tone, culminating in a citation of The Stars and Stripes Forever . Key Features: • The first volume of this edition appeared back in 2015 (8.573282) and these two volumes together now complete Bacevičius’s four piano concertos. Critical acclaim for the first volume included from Fanfare : ‘Performances and recording quality are first-rate’. • Christopher Lyndon-Gee ’s musicianship has been recognised by the Sydney Critics ‘Best Conductor’ award for his work with the then Australian Opera (now Opera Australia), by five GRAMMY Award nominations, multiple nominations for other major awards such as Cannes and Echo Klassik, and the Pizzicato Prize in Luxembourg. • Winner of a second prize at the 2005 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna, Austria, Gabrielius Alekna has appeared as a soloist with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, and the New Amsterdam (New York), as well as with all major orchestras in his native Lithuania. Daniel Barenboim recently recognised him as ‘a highly gifted pianist and musician’. 7 47313 44147 1
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Companion Titles – Christopher Lyndon-Gee and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
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Click to listen to Piano Concerto No. 1 ‘Sur des thèmes lituaniens’, Op. 12: I. Allegro moderato – più mosso – Allegro molto – Moderato – Vivace –
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