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Jarvlepp: Flights Of Fancy / Seck, Mortimore, Friedmanm, Saxart
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Jarvlepp: Flights Of Fancy / Seck, Mortimore, Friedmanm, Saxart

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Details

Composer
JARVLEPP, JAN
Artist
Various
Format
CD
Label
Navona
Released
Nov 13, 2020
Catalog #
NV6323
UPC
896931006231

About

Composer Jan Järvlepp’s FLIGHTS OF FANCY is available now through Navona Records. Fusing European and American musical traditions, the album pairs the excitement of rock and jazz rhythms with classical orchestral and chamber music forms. Turning his back on the avant-garde 20th century modernism he was trained in at the University of California, San Diego, Järvlepp’s focus has shifted to a postmodern, popular-music influenced style borrowing from a variety of cultures’ traditional music. Pierrot Solaire opens the album with an unusual combination of flute, violin, bass, percussion, and piano. Harnessing the early 20th century angst of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Järvlepp set out to compose a piece that was the mirror opposite of Schoenberg’s; teasingly subtitled “an antidote for anxiety-filled old German music,” the piece recombines popular and folk music to create a lively, energetic, and highly rhythmic piece. Trio. No. 2 captures the unique and often-neglected timbre of the piccolo playing in its lower register. Combined with rapidly bowed string harmonics, the piece is developed into three “flights of fancy”— Järvlepp’s term for flamboyant piccolo solos. The three movements place the piccolo in different musical contexts; the second movement features plucked cello and lyrical viola melodies, while the third takes on an aggressive rock music attitude. Tarantella marries contemporary popular music styles with a baroque tarantella. In keeping with postmodernism’s approach of reimagining historical tradition rather than discarding it, this piece features previously unheard combinations of the old and the new. Overture was composed in 1999 as a Laidlaw Foundation commission for the Ayorama Wind Quintet. Taking cues from the grandeur of Beethoven, Järvlepp employs loud, dramatic chords and memorable melodic phrases to create something wholly his own.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Pierrot Solaire 13:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    Pierrot Solaire
    Duration
    13:38
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Performer
    Sara Louise Seck, Mark Friedman, J. Tracy Mortimore, Parvaneh Eshghi, Kenneth Simpson
  2. 2 I. Cadillac 05:19
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Cadillac
    Duration
    05:19
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Ensemble
    Saxart
  3. 3 II. Reaching 05:13
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Reaching
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Ensemble
    Saxart
  4. 4 III. Jig 03:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Jig
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Ensemble
    Saxart
  5. 5 I. Flights of Fancy 04:08
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Flights of Fancy
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Performer
    Pascale Margely, Kevin James, Jan Järvlepp
  6. 6 II. Romance 09:07
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Romance
    Duration
    09:07
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Performer
    Pascale Margely, Kevin James, Jan Järvlepp
  7. 7 III. Perpetuum Mobile 06:19
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Perpetuum Mobile
    Duration
    06:19
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Performer
    Pascale Margely, Kevin James, Jan Järvlepp
  8. 8 Tarantella 03:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    Tarantella
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Performer
    Mark Friedman, Jan Järvlepp
  9. 9 Robot Dance 09:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    Robot Dance
    Duration
    09:08
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Performer
    Sara Louise Seck, J. Tracy Mortimore
  10. 10 Overture 08:21
    Track
    10
    Title
    Overture
    Duration
    08:21
    Composer
    Jan Järvlepp
    Ensemble
    Ayorama Wind Quintet