Elizabeth Chang, Steven Beck, Alberto Parrini - Transformations (2021) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Elizabeth Chang, Steven Beck, Alberto Parrini
- Title: Transformations
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Albany Records
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 48.0kHz
- Total Time: 01:02:52
- Total Size: 320 / 657 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Duo No. 2 for Violin and Piano
02. Solo Sonata: I. Tempo moderato
03. Solo Sonata: II. Molto vivo
04. Solo Sonata: III. Adagio e dolcemente
05. Solo Sonata: IV. Alla marcia vivace
06. Duo for Violin and Cello
07. Phantasy
Violinist Elizabeth Chang announces the April 2, 2021 release of Transformations on Albany Records, featuring works by Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), Roger Sessions (1896–1985), and Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951). The album portrays the profound teacher/student relationships from Chang’s artistic heritage, reflecting the influences and deep cross-generational connections between these composers. Chang was a student at Harvard of Leon Kirchner; Kirchner, in turn, studied with both Sessions and Schoenberg, two of the most influential composers of the twentieth century.
Chang explains, “Many eminent musicians of our time have attested to the legendary clarity with which Kirchner could lay bare the structural underpinnings of a musical work and its consequently inevitable emotional logic. Both Sessions and Schoenberg were pioneers in seeking a new compositional language in the post-tonal world while being deeply rooted in the Germanic tradition. Kirchner’s voice reflects both the thorny complexity of modernism while palpably reaching for the sensuality of the musical language of a previous era.”
Chang, who is currently Professor of Violin at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the violin and viola faculties of the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School, has forged a professional identity as performer, pedagogue, and artistic leader, founding and leading a number of festivals and chamber music series in the U.S. and overseas. In 2019, a Healey Faculty Research Grant from UMass afforded her the opportunity to record this album, which had been a cherished project plan for some time.
There are abundant connections between the composers and the compositions. Kirchner was born in Brooklyn but grew up in California. During his graduate studies the University of California Berkeley, Kirchner studied with Ernst Bloch and also with Roger Sessions. Sessions was also born in Brooklyn, studied with Bloch, and taught at UC Berkeley. Arnold Schoenberg had a profound influence on the compositional thinking of Roger Sessions, and Kirchner himself was actually a student of Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA.
Kirchner’s Duo No. 2 for Violin and Piano (2002) was written as a tribute for violinist Felix Galimir, whom Kirchner befriended at the Marlboro Music Festival. Galimir was a close personal friend of Alban Berg, one of the so-called “Trinity of the Second Viennese School” and one of Schoenberg’s two most famous pupils, along with Anton Webern. Kirchner arrived at a compositional language that reflected the influences of the Second Viennese School while incorporating his own experiences as an American composer.
Sessions’ Sonata for Violin (1953) was the last work he completed while on the faculty of the University of California Berkley Sessions composed this work using his own adaptation of Schoenberg’s 12-tone method. He called this work “difficult as hell’; it was commissioned as a tribute a violinist, Robert Arthur Gross, who studied composition with both Sessions and Schoenberg. Sessions’ Duo for Violin and Cello (1978) was the last piece of chamber music he wrote, at the age of 82. (Kirchner, coincidentally, was 82 when he composed his Duo for Violin and Piano). Dedicated to his son, a cellist, and his daughter-in-law, a violinist, Sessions’ Duo explores moods and states of a relationship – solitude, tranquility, conflict, and unity.
Like Sessions’ Duo, Schoenberg’s Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 47 (1949) is the composer’s last work of chamber music, and, like Session’s Sonata for Violin, is dedicated to a violinist friend of the composer, Adolph Koldofsky, who premiered both this work and Schoenberg’s String Trio.
01. Duo No. 2 for Violin and Piano
02. Solo Sonata: I. Tempo moderato
03. Solo Sonata: II. Molto vivo
04. Solo Sonata: III. Adagio e dolcemente
05. Solo Sonata: IV. Alla marcia vivace
06. Duo for Violin and Cello
07. Phantasy
Violinist Elizabeth Chang announces the April 2, 2021 release of Transformations on Albany Records, featuring works by Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), Roger Sessions (1896–1985), and Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951). The album portrays the profound teacher/student relationships from Chang’s artistic heritage, reflecting the influences and deep cross-generational connections between these composers. Chang was a student at Harvard of Leon Kirchner; Kirchner, in turn, studied with both Sessions and Schoenberg, two of the most influential composers of the twentieth century.
Chang explains, “Many eminent musicians of our time have attested to the legendary clarity with which Kirchner could lay bare the structural underpinnings of a musical work and its consequently inevitable emotional logic. Both Sessions and Schoenberg were pioneers in seeking a new compositional language in the post-tonal world while being deeply rooted in the Germanic tradition. Kirchner’s voice reflects both the thorny complexity of modernism while palpably reaching for the sensuality of the musical language of a previous era.”
Chang, who is currently Professor of Violin at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the violin and viola faculties of the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School, has forged a professional identity as performer, pedagogue, and artistic leader, founding and leading a number of festivals and chamber music series in the U.S. and overseas. In 2019, a Healey Faculty Research Grant from UMass afforded her the opportunity to record this album, which had been a cherished project plan for some time.
There are abundant connections between the composers and the compositions. Kirchner was born in Brooklyn but grew up in California. During his graduate studies the University of California Berkeley, Kirchner studied with Ernst Bloch and also with Roger Sessions. Sessions was also born in Brooklyn, studied with Bloch, and taught at UC Berkeley. Arnold Schoenberg had a profound influence on the compositional thinking of Roger Sessions, and Kirchner himself was actually a student of Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA.
Kirchner’s Duo No. 2 for Violin and Piano (2002) was written as a tribute for violinist Felix Galimir, whom Kirchner befriended at the Marlboro Music Festival. Galimir was a close personal friend of Alban Berg, one of the so-called “Trinity of the Second Viennese School” and one of Schoenberg’s two most famous pupils, along with Anton Webern. Kirchner arrived at a compositional language that reflected the influences of the Second Viennese School while incorporating his own experiences as an American composer.
Sessions’ Sonata for Violin (1953) was the last work he completed while on the faculty of the University of California Berkley Sessions composed this work using his own adaptation of Schoenberg’s 12-tone method. He called this work “difficult as hell’; it was commissioned as a tribute a violinist, Robert Arthur Gross, who studied composition with both Sessions and Schoenberg. Sessions’ Duo for Violin and Cello (1978) was the last piece of chamber music he wrote, at the age of 82. (Kirchner, coincidentally, was 82 when he composed his Duo for Violin and Piano). Dedicated to his son, a cellist, and his daughter-in-law, a violinist, Sessions’ Duo explores moods and states of a relationship – solitude, tranquility, conflict, and unity.
Like Sessions’ Duo, Schoenberg’s Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 47 (1949) is the composer’s last work of chamber music, and, like Session’s Sonata for Violin, is dedicated to a violinist friend of the composer, Adolph Koldofsky, who premiered both this work and Schoenberg’s String Trio.
Year 2021 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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