Aaron Jay Kernis: Color Wheel - Symphony No. 4 "Chromelodeon" (Live) Classical Orchestral & Concertos Naxos

Aaron Jay Kernis: Color Wheel - Symphony No. 4 "Chromelodeon" (Live)

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NA 9838

Aaron Jay Kernis: Color Wheel - Symphony No. 4 "Chromelodeon" (Live)

Label Catalogue Number:
8.559838

Running Time: 00:51:57

Release Date: June 2020
Originally recorded in 2019

Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos

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Pulitzer Prize recipient and GRAMMY award-winner Aaron Jay Kernis is one of America’s most performed composers. Both works on this album exemplify his creative approach to orchestral composition, sharing elements in common, such as virtuoso percussion writing and the use of variation form. Color Wheel is an exuberant miniature concerto for orchestra with a wide array of contrasts, while Symphony No. 4 ‘Chromelodeon’ explores the coexistence of opposing musical forces to powerful, pensive, and touching effect. Champions of new American music, the Nashville Symphony and its music director Giancarlo Guerrero had premiered numerous works, and received 13 GRAMMY Awards including two for Best Orchestral Performance. Among their award-winning recordings include works by Michael Daugherty, Stephen Paulus, and Jennifer Higdon

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“… Kernis is an important composer, and this music demands to be heard.”

Phillip Scott – Fanfare – July/August 2021

2020 Most Wanted

Carson Cooman – Fanfare – November/December 2020

“… The Nashville Symphony give confident, finely-tuned accounts of both works – one would certainly not argue if this was the Boston Symphony or the Philadelphia Orchestra itself; Giancarlo Guerrero has a convincing command of the fine symphony in particular. As for the recording, the Naxos sound opens out pleasingly at the loudest climaxes and allows Kernis’s detail to emerge unsullied. Naxos’s continued commitment to this composer is most commendable, and this premiere recording of his Symphony No 4 will surely win him new friends.”

Richard Hanlon – MusicWeb-International.com – 11 September 2020

Performance *** Recording ****

"...It's [Color Wheel] celebratory panche is brilliantly captured by Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony as it spins not only through the colour spectrum but the stylistic spectrum as well ... Fortified by extravagant percussion and tottering drunken brass, Guerrero's players give the Symphony their all"

Geoff Brown - BBC Music magazine - August 2020

“… This virtuoso and extremely contrasty work [Color Wheel] takes the color wheel as the starting point for « contrasts of basic primary colors ». Kernis goes on to say: « Harmonically it explores a wide gamut of colors, from huge overtone-derived chords, strongly contrasting levels of consonance and dissonance and occasional touches of jazz harmony and syncopation ». Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville brilliantly display these colours and deliver an exciting and gripping performance of Color Wheel…” ****

Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 1 July 2020

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