Then & Now - Chamber Music of Richard Festinger

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Label
New Focus Recordings
Release Date
May 16, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Richard Festinger
    • PERFORMER
      Calefax, Alan R. Kay, Michael Nicolas, Cygnus Ensemble, Collage New Music, Windscape
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 16, 2025
    • UPC
      613527062354
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR441
    • LABEL
      New Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Contemporary Era
    Works ⌄

    1. Invocation

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet

    2. To a Pilgrim

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Performer: Alan R. Kay, Michael Nicolas

    3. Hidden Spring

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Ensemble: Cygnus Ensemble

    4. I. Moderato

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Ensemble: Collage New Music

    5. II. Andante

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Ensemble: Collage New Music

    6. III. Allegro

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Ensemble: Collage New Music

    7. I. Presto energico

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Ensemble: Windscape

    8. II. Lento

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Ensemble: Windscape

    9. III. Allegro

      Composer: Richard Festinger

      Ensemble: Windscape


Composer Richard Festinger's Then and Now includes five chamber works for various instrumentations, featuring Collage New Music, Cygnus, Windscape, Calefax, and other accomplished performers. Festinger's aesthetic springs from the pitch centered modernists of the late 20th century, but is also informed by his background studying jazz with such luminaries as Gary Burton, shaping his music not so much in terms of feel or expression, but in the way in which he approaches harmony and motivic development.