Conductor(s): Trevor, Kirk
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Genre: Orchestral
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.559619
Barcode: 636943961926
Release Date: 04/2010

ZAIMONT, J.L.: Chroma: Northern Lights / Symphony No. 2, "Remember Me" (excerpts) / Stillness (Slovak National Symphony, Trevor)

American composer Judith Lang Zaimont’s music is dynamic and palpably emotional. These four orchestral works employ nuanced palettes of instrumental colors and center on her lifelong engagement with memory. Chroma – Northern Lights vividly displays in sound the glowing polar auroras. Ghosts pairs key Zaimont motifs with those by congenial spirits Scriabin, Britten, Ravel, Berg, Christopher Rouse and Laurie Anderson, while the intensely-felt Elegy, dedicated to her aunt, unfolds in a continuous arc of song for massed strings. The symphonic STILLNESS melds the mysterious stasis of Morton Feldman’s music with ever-shifting textures into a fascinating equilibrium.

Tracklist

Zaimont, Judith Lang
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Trevor, Kirk (Conductor)
1Chroma: Northern Lights10:33
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Trevor, Kirk (Conductor)
Marecek, Robert (violin)
Skorepa, Josef (violin)
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Trevor, Kirk (Conductor)
2I. Ghosts12:15
Marecek, Robert (violin)
Skorepa, Josef (violin)
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Trevor, Kirk (Conductor)
3II. Elegy10:07
Trevor, Kirk (Conductor)
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Marecek, Robert (violin)
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Trevor, Kirk (Conductor)
4Stillness20:00
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Trevor, Kirk (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 52:55