Joel Feigin: Music for Chamber Orchestra
It might seem that modern classical music rarely expresses happiness – but Aviv, a piano concerto by Joel Feigin (born in New York in 1951), suggests the warmth and optimism of the coming of spring. The angular, even anguished, essay for strings Surging Seas, by contrast, was inspired by the devastation wrought by the tsunamis of 2004 and 2011. The Two Songs from Twelfth Night have their origins in the tradition of American orchestral song established by Samuel Barber. And in the diptych Mosaic, also for strings, a first ‘panel’ of heartfelt lyricism is succeeded by an outburst of buoyant energy.
Yael Weiss, piano (Tracks 1 – 3)
John Savournin, baritone (Tracks 7 – 8)
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra (Tracks 1 – 8)
Kirk Trevor, conductor (Tracks 1 – 8)
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin (Tracks 9 – 10)
Misha Rachlevsky, conductor (Tracks 9 – 10)
Listen To This Recording:
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Aviv: Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra (2009)
- Allegro vivace –
- Adagio –
- Allegro scherzando
- Allegro maestoso –
- Largo –
- Allegro
- No. 1 O Mistress Mine (Allegretto grazioso)
- No. 2 Come Away, Come Away, Death (Adagio)
- I Adagio – Allegro grazioso e scherzando – Adagio
- II Adagio – Allegro vivace
Surging Seas for string orchestra (2012)
Two Songs from Twelfth Night (2013)
Mosaic in Two Panels (1997)*
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*LIVE RECORDING
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