Conductor(s): Tanenbaum, David
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Genre: Chamber Music; Vocal
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.559650
Barcode: 636943965023
Release Date: 08/2010

Chamber Music with Guitar (American) - KERNIS, A.J. / LIDERMAN, J. / MACKEY, S. (Awakenings) (D. Tanenbaum, Plitmann, A. Strauss, Kernis)

Chamber music breaks exciting new ground with these three works by leading American composers. Aaron Jay Kernis’s beautiful Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby is a touching song cycle for the unusual combination of soprano, violin, guitar and piano. In the rhythmically agile Aged Tunes, Jorge Liderman contrasts the sonorities of guitar and string quartet. Steven Mackey’s Measures of Turbulence, a remarkably subtle soundscape despite its title, explores the gonglike multiphonic sounds of acoustic and electric guitars. Each of these new pieces was written for the artists who perform them here.

Tracklist

Kernis, Aaron Jay
Duffy, Carol Ann - Lyricist
Traherne, Thomas - Lyricist
Traditional - Lyricist
Wette, Adelheid - Lyricist
Plitmann, Hila (soprano)
Strauss, Axel (violin)
Tanenbaum, David (guitar)
Kernis, Aaron Jay (piano)
1I. The Salutation09:49
Plitmann, Hila (soprano)
Strauss, Axel (violin)
Tanenbaum, David (guitar)
Kernis, Aaron Jay (piano)
2II. The Light Gatherer03:40
Plitmann, Hila (soprano)
Strauss, Axel (violin)
Tanenbaum, David (guitar)
Kernis, Aaron Jay (piano)
3III. Double Lullaby09:10
Plitmann, Hila (soprano)
Strauss, Axel (violin)
Tanenbaum, David (guitar)
Kernis, Aaron Jay (piano)
Liderman, Jorge
Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Ensemble)
Tanenbaum, David (guitar)
4Aged Tunes12:55
Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Ensemble)
Tanenbaum, David (guitar)
Mackey, Steven
San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Ensemble (Ensemble)
Tanenbaum, David (Conductor)
5Measures of Turbulence17:28
San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Ensemble (Ensemble)
Tanenbaum, David (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 53:02