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 |  |  | | | | Track Listings | | | Trumpet and Piano Sonata | | | James Sherry, Trumpet; Soyoung Ryoo, Piano | | | 1. Fanfare | 1:02 | | 2. Fugal Fantasy | 1:35 | | 3. Farewell | 1:54 | | Violin and Piano Sonata | | | Nicholas Currie, Violin; Lisa Rehwoldt, Piano | | | 1. Themes & Variations | 2:11 | | 2. Lullaby Fantasia | 1:53 | | 3. Chase | 1:30 | | Euphonium and Piano Sonata | | | Karl Schultz, Euphonium; Alex Rovang, Piano | | | 1. Allegro | 1:56 | | 2. Romance | 3:02 | | 3. Presto | 1:39 | | Clarinet and Piano Sonata | | | Kyle Coughlin, Clarinet; Lisa Rehwoldt, Piano | | | 1. Andante | 2:47 | | 2. Scherzo | 1:09 | | 3. Allegro | 1:49 | | Horn and Piano Sonata | | | Benito Diaz, Horn; Jesus Gomez, Piano | | | 1. Missing | 2:10 | | 2. Free | 1:46 | | String Quartet No. 1 | | | Nicholas Currie & Asako Kuboki, Violins; Catherine Frey, Viola; Todd Thiel, Cello | | | 1. Overture | 2:57 | | 2. Reverie | 2:41 | | 3. Rejouissance | 1:37 | | Even Horizon for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra | | | Richard Stoltzman, Clarinet; Kirk Trevor, Conducting the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | | | 1. Prelude | 4:44 | | 2. Night | 4:18 | | 3. Event Horizon | 6:02 | | Hamilton Street Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra | | | Oscar Lopez Plaza, Guitar; Kirk Trevor, Conducting the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | | | 1. (Allegro) | 2:11 | | 2. Episode One | 0:59 | | 3. Autumn Woods | 3:23 | | 4. Episode Two | 0:56 | | 5. Episode Three-Two, for Moonlight | 2:38 | | 6. (After Purcell) | 1:57 | | Missa humanis for Chorus and Chamber Orchestra | | | Kirk Trevor Conducts the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | | | 1. Kyrie | 1:49 | | 2. Gloria | 1:22 | | 3. Credo | 1:48 | | 4. Sanctus | 1:55 | | 5. Agnus Dei | 3:19 | | Total time: | 71:54 |
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| | | | | | Karen Amrhein - Still Life | | | Our Price: $9.95  | | | | Item Number: MMC2136 | | Audio Format: DDD | | Genres: Chamber\Choral\Classical\Guitar\String Quartet | | | | Description | | Featuring Richard Stoltzman on Clarinet, Oscar Lopez Plaza on Guitar, Nicholas Currie on Violin, and The Slovak Radio Chamber Orchestra (& Chorus) with Kirk Trevor conducting.
"...adds up to one of the most fascinating releases to come my way in a long while. In short, Want List material."
- William Zagorski
The music of composer Karen Amrhein (b. 1970) has been described as "seriously worth investigating for study and public performance.... Succinct in style and scope, it provides the audience a capsulized aroma of mid-twentieth century harmonic idioms as well as some fresh melodic direction.... [and it] leaves the listener wanting more." - The Horn Call
"Karen is very sensitive to melody, and quite insightful as to the harmonic structure that will best support it. What results is both engaging and intriguing, as well as emotionally satisfying, not infrequently witty, and quite often uplifting - all characteristics and affects that seem regrettably rare in the work of more recent times." - Composer Robert Sirota, Director of the Peabody Institute
Her suite of orchestral tone poems that accompany her novel "Avandalyn" drew enthusiastic praise from the musical advisors to the Tolkien estate, who stated that they "regard her work very highly indeed."
"Still Life" is an album of imagery. When asked why she composes, Amrhein sometimes answers, "because there is music I want to hear that I haven't found anywhere else but inside me." |
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