Kevin Puts: Symphony No. 4

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra make persuasive champions for Puts's Symphony No. 4...The real delight of the disc, though, is the choral cycle To Touch the Sky...Conspirare's straight... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2013 More…

Release Date: 29th Jul 2013
Catalogue No: HMU907580
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 59 minutes

Puts: If I were a swan

Work length6:22

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

Puts: To touch the sky

Work length24:56

$9.20

$11.50

$13.35

I. Annunciation (Magnificat)

Track length3:12

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

II. Unbreakable

Track length2:23

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

III. The Fruit of Silence

Track length1:20

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

IV. Falling Snow

Track length1:17

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

V. At Castle Wood

Track length5:43

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

VI. Epitaph

Track length1:06

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

VII. Who has seen the wind?

Track length0:51

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

VIII. With my two arms

Track length1:27

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

IX. Most noble evergreen

Track length7:37

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

Puts: Symphony No. 4 'From Mission San Juan'

Work length28:25

$4.40

$5.50

$6.40

I. Prelude: Mission San Juan Bautista, ca.1800

Track length5:50

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

II. Arriquetpon (the diary of Francisco Arroyo de la Cuesta, 1818)

Track length8:02

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

III. Interlude

Track length6:11

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

IV. Healing Song

Track length8:22

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

About
Reviews
Explore

About

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (b. 1972) is known for his distinctive and richly coloured musical voice. Making their label début, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Kevin Puts’ Symphony No.4 (From Mission San Juan), inspired by Native American melodies. Opening this programme of world première recordings, Craig Hella Johnson leads Conspirare in two choral settings of texts by women poets: 'To Touch the Sky' and 'If I Were a Swan'.

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for 'Silent Night', an opera commissioned by Minnesota Opera and co-written with librettist Mark Campbell, Kevin Puts has been hailed as one of the most important composers of his generation. His work has been commissioned and performed by leading orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the New York Philharmonic, Tonhalle-Orchester (Zurich), the Saint Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra, and by soloists and chamber ensembles such as Evelyn Glennie, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane, the Eroica Trio and the Miro Quartet.

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he received his training as a composer and pianist at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University. Since 2006, he has been a member of the composition department at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Reviews

October 2013

Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra make persuasive champions for Puts's Symphony No. 4...The real delight of the disc, though, is the choral cycle To Touch the Sky...Conspirare's straight upper-voice sound sets the tone for delivery that balances simplicity with quiet virtuosity.

November 2013

The performances are stunning in their purity and control… an attractive and effective score… The orchestration is consistently brilliant, too, and the music’s kaleidoscopic shifts in emotional terrain- from the quietly spiritual to the rhythmically insistent to the grandly confident to the achingly poignant are handled with aplomb

30th October 2013

The symphony is colourful and in it Kevin Puts displays a confident ability to write resourcefully for the orchestra. It’s attractive music without being particularly deep. The performance is spirited and committed...This is attractive, accessible music in first rate performances. Kevin Puts has been well served by this disc.

Kevin Puts: Symphony No. 4

Downloads

Contents

Download queue