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American Mavericks

American Mavericks


Cowell:

Synchrony

Piano Concerto, HC 440

Jeremy Denk (piano)

Harrison, L:

Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra

Paul Jacobs (organ)

Varèse:

Amériques


Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony release live recordings from their memorable 2012 American Mavericks festival, featuring seminal works by Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and Edgard Varèse, in Hybrid SACD format.

The latest release from Michael Tilson Thomas and the Grammy® Award-winning San Francisco Symphony features stunning live recordings from their wildly successful American Mavericks festival, a slate of concerts and special events focusing on the compositional voices who created a new American sound for the 20th century and beyond.

Following two weeks of concerts in March 2012 in San Francisco, MTT and SFS took to the road to present these concerts throughout the US, attracting international attention.

Presented in premium audio Hybrid SACD, the recording captures performances of four works by three influential but seldom heard 20th century masters. Henry Cowell's Synchrony and his Piano Concerto, with Jeremy Denk, combine Cowell's distinctive musical language with exceptionally expressive playing. Lou Harrison's eclectic compositional style and organ soloist Paul Jacobs’ spectacular virtuosity are on full display in the Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra. This unique recording concludes with Edgard Varèse's monumental Amériques and the orchestral siren that influenced generations of composers.

“a brilliantly virtuosic and detailed account (in its 1927 revision) of Amériques...[The Piano Concerto's] solo part is dashingly well played by Jeremy Denk.” The Guardian, 25th October 2012 ***

“None of the music here pretends to be subtle. The mystical flavour of Henry Cowell’s atmospheric Synchrony takes the Stravinsky of The Rite of Spring a stage further...The San Francisco Symphony and Tilson Thomas give scintillating performances.” Sunday Times, 28th October 2012

“Michael Tilson Thomas's time at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony has been marked by a courageous dedication to modernist American outsiders, and American Mavericks bears out the orchestra's experience with such outré material.” The Independent, 3rd November 2012 *****

“Jeremy Denk, the gifted soloist, dismisses the [Concerto]’s technical difficulties with ease, as does the trumpeter who begins Cowell’s Synchrony with a sinuous three-minute solo, hot as molten lava...In Varèse’s intoxicating celebration of new horizons, Amériques, Tilson Thomas drives his orchestra through the teeming sounds with tremendous vigour.” The Times, 9th November 2012 ****

“Tilson Thomas doesn't play these composers like they're waggish tricksters, or possessed by idealistic amateurism...Tilson Thomas peels the orchestra open like a considerable box of delights...This is an exceptionally fine Ameriques, filled with depth and sonic glare, and not a little menace.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2013

“This is one of the boldest pieces of programming to have come my way in a long time...Tilson Thomas turns in a superb performance, remarkable as much for the delicacy of the quiet moments as for the raucous climaxes.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 *****

“Tilson Thomas, at his best in this kind of off-beat repertoire – a man on a mission - should be loudly applauded for his adventurous programming.” MusicWeb International, 2nd May 2013

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - February 2013

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Avie - SFS0056

(SACD)

$22.25

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Die Soloflöte, Vol. 4: Modern

Die Soloflöte, Vol. 4: Modern


Berio:

Sequenza I for flute

Bozza:

Image pour flûte seule, Op. 38

Debussy:

Syrinx for solo flute

Driessler:

Sonata Op. 10: Allegretto

Escher:

Sonata for flute solo, Op. 16: Largo-vivace

Ferroud:

Pièces (3): Bergère Captive

Fukushima:

Requiem

Hindemith:

Acht Stücke

Honegger:

Danse de la chèvre

Ibert:

Pièce pour flûte seule

Jolivet:

Incantation 'Pour que la maisson soit riche'

Incantation No. 4 (Pour une communion sereine de l'être avec le monde)

Karg-Elert:

Flute Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 140

Koechlin:

Sonatine, Op. 184: Lento

Lauber:

Prélude et Fugue, Op. 49: Prelude

Lorenzo, L:

Suite Mythologique, Op. 38: Pan

Martin, V:

Incantation No. 2

Raphael, G:

Sonata for Violin Solo Op. 46, No. 2: Sehr launisch und schrullig

Rivier:

Oiseaux tendres for solo flute

Schneider, W:

Sonata, Op. 53: Allegretto

Stern, M:

Deux pièces: Iberica

Szervánszky:

Five Concert Études for Solo Flute: Scherzo

Varèse:

Densité 21.5


Mirjam Nastasi (flute)

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

ARS Produktion Die Soloflöte - ARS38104

(SACD)

$18.50

(also available to download from $10.50)

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