
Baker: Piano Concerto "From Noon to Starry Night" / Hamelin
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.
Product Description:
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Catalog Number: 8559804
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UPC: 636943980422
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Label: Naxos
Composer: Claude Baker
Conductor: Gilbert Varga
Orchestra/Ensemble: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin