Navona
Prisma, Vol. 2: Contemporary Concertos and Works for Orchestra / Various
$16.99
Details
- Composer
- CASTINE JARVLEPP LENTINI
- Artist
- Matos, Nouzovsky, Petrdlik, Vaupotic, Va
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Navona
- Released
- May 10, 2019
- Catalog #
- NV6232
- UPC
- 896931005326
About
Navona Records proudly presents PRISMA VOL. 2, an epic journey into the world of the large ensemble with five of today’s top contemporary composers. PRISMA 2 opens with two debuts: James Lentini’s stunning first release with PARMA Recordings, and the Zagreb Festival Orchestra’s first project on the Navona label. Lentini’s Concerto for Guitar and Strings, performed with the string orchestra by virtuoso guitar soloist Iliana Matos, begins with a fresh and buoyant motive that serves as a foundation for the entire movement. Orchestra and guitar converse back and forth as the piece moves through a melancholic, reflective second movement, and then rises back to full energy with the brisk final movement. This is followed by Rain Worthington’s Full Circle, a somewhat dissonant, striking piece with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra that follows the emergence and recession of emotions through a lifetime, as soloists emerge and recede from the orchestra. Jan Järvlepp’s Camerata Music, is a bright, tonal piece in a style that the composer calls “post-academic.” Inspired by the vallenato styles of folk music that Järvlepp heard while visiting Colombia, Camerata Music uses percussion to capture the joyous, rhythmic energy of that musical tradition. Peter Castine’s Aperture takes the album in a more somber direction with unsettled dissonance and fragmented feeling, filled with the horror following the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. The composer sets the solo flute and concertino string quartet at odds with one another, clashing even as the orchestra sometimes intervenes to help. PRISMA 2 is brought to a close with composer Beth Mehocic’s Left of Winter, written as a prelude to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. It has the same primal rhythms as Stravinsky’s ballet, but with the addition of cymbals, trumpets, and winds that paint the image of young men going off to war.
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 I. Andante 05:25
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Andante
- Duration
- 05:25
- Composer
- James Lentini
- Performer
- Iliana Matos
- Ensemble
- Zagreb Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Miran Vaupotić
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2 II. Adagio 04:26
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Adagio
- Duration
- 04:26
- Composer
- James Lentini
- Performer
- Iliana Matos
- Ensemble
- Zagreb Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Miran Vaupotić
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3 III. Allegro 05:39
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Allegro
- Duration
- 05:39
- Composer
- James Lentini
- Performer
- Iliana Matos
- Ensemble
- Zagreb Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Miran Vaupotić
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4 Full Circle 10:46
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Full Circle
- Duration
- 10:46
- Composer
- Rain Worthington
- Performer
- Petr Nouzovský
- Ensemble
- Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Petr Vronský
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5 Camerata Music (version for orchestra) 07:52
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Camerata Music (version for orchestra)
- Duration
- 07:52
- Composer
- Jan Järvlepp
- Ensemble
- Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Petr Vronský
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6 Aperture 11:25
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Aperture
- Duration
- 11:25
- Composer
- Peter Castine
- Performer
- Barbara Hill
- Ensemble
- Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Stanislav Vavřínek
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7 Left of Winter 06:55
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Left of Winter
- Duration
- 06:55
- Composer
- Beth Mehocic
- Ensemble
- Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Jiří Petrdlík