American Classics - Awakenings: New American Chamber Music For Guitar

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Chamber music breaks exciting new ground with these three works by leading American composers. Aaron Jay Kernis’s beautiful Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby is a touching song cycle for the unusual combination of soprano, violin, guitar and piano. In the rhythmically agile Aged Tunes, Jorge Liderman contrasts the sonorities of guitar and string quartet. Steven Mackey’s Measures of Turbulence, a remarkably subtle soundscape despite its title, explores the gonglike multiphonic sounds of acoustic and electric guitars. Each of these new pieces was written for the artists who perform them here.



Product Description:


  • Release Date: August 31, 2010


  • Catalog Number: 8559650


  • UPC: 636943965023


  • Label: Naxos


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Aaron Jay Kernis, Jorge Liderman, Steven Mackey


  • Conductor: David Tanenbaum


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cuarteto Latinoamericano, San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Ensemble


  • Performer: Aaron Jay Kernis, Axel Strauss, David Tanenbaum, Hila Plitmann



Works:


  1. Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby

    Composer: Aaron Jay Kernis

    Performer: Aaron Jay Kernis (Piano), Hila Plitmann (Soprano), Axel Strauss (Violin), David Tanenbaum (Guitar)


  2. Aged Tunes

    Composer: Jorge Liderman

    Ensemble: Cuarteto Latinoamericano

    Performer: David Tanenbaum (Guitar)


  3. Measures of Turbulence

    Composer: Steven Mackey

    Ensemble: San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Ensemble

    Conductor: David Tanenbaum