Daugherty: Dreamachine, Trail of Tears & Reflections on the Mississippi / Miller, Albany Symphony
Details
- Composer
- DAUGHERTY, MICHAEL
- Artist
- Porter, Jantch, Glennie, Miller
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Mar 01, 2018
- Catalog #
- 8559807
- UPC
- 636943980729
About
Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores the relationships between machines, humanity and nature in three unique concertos. ‘Dreamachine’ for solo percussion and orchestra is a colorful tribute to the imagination of inventors who dreamed of new machines, both real and surreal. The flute concerto ‘Trail of Tears’ dramatizes the tragic governmental forced relocation of Native Americans in 1838 and meditates on how the human spirit discovers ways to deal with adversity. ‘Reflections on the Mississippi’ for tuba and orchestra is a musical voyage down the legendary Mississippi River from Iowa to Louisiana. The Albany Symphony, conducted by David Alan Miller, delivers mesmerizing performances by three outstanding women soloists: Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, flutist extraordinaire Amy Porter, and Carol Jantsch, the remarkable principal tubist of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
REVIEW:
Not typically known as a composer of virtuoso music hitherto, Michael Daugherty here writes splendid parts for all three soloists in these concertos, but percussionist Evelyn Glennie’s in Dreamachine is simply breathtaking. And yet, there’s more to this album than Glennie. Daugherty has been expanding his characteristic “Stravinsky plus pop culture” musical language, and although all the music here is typically programmatic, you might not guess that he was the composer. The opening flute concerto, Trail of Tears, applies cinematic techniques to that tragic event with unexpected and convincing results, all the while merging those with virtuoso flute writing. And the evocative tuba concerto, "Reflections on the Mississippi" is a much-needed expansion of the concerto literature for that instrument. With fine engineering from a pair of spaces in the Troy, New York area backing capable performances from the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller, this is an unusually strong Daugherty release.
-- AllMusic.com (James Manheim)
The latest batch of colorfully orchestrated, imaginatively conceived orchestral works by this GRAMMY Award winning composer are concertante pieces from 2010: Trail of Tears, which is a meditation on the brutal 1838 relocation of Native Americans and the flute a fittingly haunting commentator; 2013's Reflections which goes down the famous river in four movements (“Mist”, “Fury”, “Prayer” and “Steamboat”) and the big, 34-minute Dreamachine of 2014, the most stylistically heterogenous work here from the eerie and impressionistic “Electric Eel” movement which sounds like the aquarium movement from Carnival of the Animals on acid or peyote to the rock-band drum solo in the “Vulcan’s Forge” finale.
-- Records International
Tracklist 11 tracks
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1 I. Where the wind blew free 10:00
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Where the wind blew free
- Duration
- 10:00
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Amy Porter
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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2 II. Incantation 06:06
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Incantation
- Duration
- 06:06
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Amy Porter
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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3 III. Sun dance 06:45
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Sun dance
- Duration
- 06:45
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Amy Porter
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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4 I. Da Vinci's Wings 09:26
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Da Vinci's Wings
- Duration
- 09:26
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Evelyn Glennie
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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5 II. Rube Goldberg's Variations 04:56
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Rube Goldberg's Variations
- Duration
- 04:56
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Evelyn Glennie
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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6 III. Electric Eel 10:32
- Track
- 6
- Title
- III. Electric Eel
- Duration
- 10:32
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Evelyn Glennie
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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7 IV. Vulcan's Forge 09:01
- Track
- 7
- Title
- IV. Vulcan's Forge
- Duration
- 09:01
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Evelyn Glennie
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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8 I. Mist 05:33
- Track
- 8
- Title
- I. Mist
- Duration
- 05:33
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Carol Jantsch
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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9 II. Fury 03:43
- Track
- 9
- Title
- II. Fury
- Duration
- 03:43
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Carol Jantsch
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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10 III. Prayer 06:43
- Track
- 10
- Title
- III. Prayer
- Duration
- 06:43
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Carol Jantsch
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller
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11 IV. Steamboat 04:39
- Track
- 11
- Title
- IV. Steamboat
- Duration
- 04:39
- Composer
- Michael Daugherty
- Performer
- Carol Jantsch
- Ensemble
- Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Alan Miller