Baker: Piano Concerto "From Noon to Starry Night" / Hamelin

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 13, 2017
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      BAKER, CLAUDE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Hamelin, Varga
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 13, 2017
    • UPC
      636943980422
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559804
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Award-winning and much decorated composer Claude Baker here entwines his evocative soundworld with the powerful imagery of two great poets. Recorded in its premiere performance with Marc-Andre Hamelin as soloist, the Piano Concerto ‘From Noon to Starry Night’ draws on and amplifies the structures and meanings of five poems by Walt Whitman, expressing the heroism and darkness of war, exuberant celebrations of nature and a wistful ‘remembrance of things past.’ Aus Schwanengesang is a memorial piece that expands and ‘re-composes’ the poignant Heine Lieder from Schubert’s song cycle with oblique and multi-layered references.