America's Neglected Composer Classical Chamber Naxos

America's Neglected Composer

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NA 9900

America's Neglected Composer

Label Catalogue Number:
8.559900

Running Time: 00:52:41

Release Date: October 2021
Originally recorded in October 2021

Genre:
Classical
Chamber

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Arthur Farwell has been called ‘the most neglected composer in [American musical] history.’ Hounded by accusations of ‘cultural appropriation,’ he has posthumously fallen prey to changing notions of cultural authenticity. As the leader of the ‘Indianists’ movement, Farwell believed it was a democratic obligation of Americans of European descent to try to understand the indigenous Americans they displaced and oppressed. To this end, he merged Indian music and lore with Western concert forms – today, a controversial practice. The performances here recorded originated at a landmark PostClassical Ensemble festival at Washington’s National Cathedral. The Dakota String Quartet, resident quartet of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (SDSO), comprises principal string players of the orchestra. First violin Doosook Kim has been concertmaster with the SDSO since 1995 and performs as a soloist and chamber musician in the US and internationally.

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“… Lyric baritone William Sharp offers poignant, reflective, and spiritually engaged interpretations of the Three Indian Songs, op.32, while the University of Texas Chamber Singers under James Morrow brilliantly deliver the choral version of Farwell’s masterwork miniature Pawnee Horses… Arciuli who collaborates with Sharp in the aforementioned songs, by far makes the most substantial individual contribution on this historic disc… He brings to this music, along with great personal empathy, a rare ability to make the delicate powerful and the thunderous polite…”

Curt Cacioppo – Fanfare – January/February 2022

“… Much startlingly fresh writing here and well recorded too.”

Rob Barnett – MusicWeb-International.com – 30 November 2021

“… his [Farewell] string quartet The Hako, inspired by a Pawnee Kalumet ceremony, is musically quite an interesting work. The other pieces, songs, choruses and piano works all bring elements of traditional music into the context of Western music, but without imitating it or giving it a similar importance as Chinese composers have done with Chinese tunes. Farwell achieves something thoroughly his own. The good interpretations allow an unreserved approach to this composer who has fallen into oblivion.” ****

Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 1 November 2021

“A long overdue and most welcome addition to the Farwell discography.”

Curt Cacioppo – MusicWeb-International.com – 26 October 2021

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