Composer: George Tsontakis
Performer: David Krakauer, Eric Berlin, Eunice Kim, Luosha Fang
Orchestra: Albany Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: David Alan Miller
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Release: 2017
Size: 1.07 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Anasa
01. I. Donya – Pistoli
02. II. Soliloquy
03. III. Bir-Zirk!
True Colors
04. I. Prologue. Echoing
05. II. Magic Act
Unforgettable
06. I. Changing Landscapes
07. II. Leapfrogging
08. III. Ballade
Over the last few years American composer George Tsontakis, winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, has crafted three distinctive and exciting additions to the contemporary concerto repertoire. Anasa, for clarinet and orchestra, combines elements of the Klezmer tradition with dance themes inspired by the lyra and lauto, traditional Cretan instruments. In True Colors the trumpet journeys in harmonically vivid, jazz-tinged directions, while Unforgettable balances the meditative with the playful, moving from ballad to phantasmagoria in a double concerto of drama and drive.