Higdon: Sky Quartet, Amazing Grace, Viola Sonata

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
July 30, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HIGDON, JENNIFER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Serafin String Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Charles Abramovic, Eric Stomberg, Lawrence Stomberg, Timothy Schwarz
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Amazing Grace (version for string quartet)

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Ensemble: Serafin String Quartet

    2. I. Sky Rising

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Ensemble: Serafin String Quartet

    3. II. Blue Sky

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Ensemble: Serafin String Quartet

    4. III. Fury

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Ensemble: Serafin String Quartet

    5. IV. Immense Sky

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Ensemble: Serafin String Quartet

    6. I. Calmly

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Performer: Molly Carr, Charles Abramovic

    7. II. Declamatory

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Performer: Molly Carr, Charles Abramovic

    8. Dark Wood

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Performer: Eric Stomberg, Timothy Schwarz, Lawrence Stomberg, Charles Abramovic

    9. String Trio

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Ensemble: Serafin String Quartet


Pulitzer and GRAMMY® Award winner Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed living American composers, and this program provides a unique opportunity to hear première recordings of her earlier chamber music. The String Trio was written while Higdon was a developing young composer, and the influences of Prokofiev and Copland can be heard in the Sonata for Viola and Piano. The beauty and immensity of the Western US sky was the inspiration for Sky Quartet, while Dark Wood explores the soulful and virtuoso character of the bassoon. Higdon’s “vibrant and individual voice” (Limelight Magazine) can be heard in further chamber works on Naxos 8.559298.