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Selected Chamber & Piano Works
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS
1.
Scat for oboe, string trio and piano (2007)
6:13
The Walden Chamber Players
Six Piano Etudes for solo piano (1996)
2.
I
Orbital Beacons - Homage to Luciano Berio
4:07
3.
II
Fire Waltz - Homage to Bela Bartok
1:58
4.
III
Catherdral Waterfall - Homage to Olivier Messiaen
2:58
5.
IV
On Twilight - Homage to Pierre Boulez
2:29
6.
V
Rain At Funeral - Homage to Morton Feldman
2:55
7.
VI
Twitter-Machines - Homage to David Rakowski
2:06
Amy Briggs, piano
8.
Double Helix (Mansueto Tribute) for 2 violins (2011)
3:53
Janet Sung & Yuan-Quin Yu, violins
9.
Ring Flourish Blaze a fanfare for piccolos and brass (2000)
1:51
Southern Methodist University Wind Ensemble, Jack Delaney conducting
A Circle Around The Sun for piano trio (2000)
10.
I
1:36
11.
II
3:18
The Walden Chamber Players
12.
Pilgrim Soul for English Horn and 2 Violins (2011)
10:44
Robert Walters, English horn, Stefan Hersh and Steve Rose, violins
Traces for solo piano (2007)
13.
II
Caprice
2:07
Like Scarlatti's Baroque ornamentaion crossed with Art Tatum
14.
III
Tango
3:04
Like Astor Piazzola crossed with John Coltrane
15.
IV
Impromptu
4:43
Like Thelonious Monk crossed with Chopin
16.
I
Reverie
1:50
Like Schumann 'The Poet Speaks' crossed with George Crumb
17.
V
Toccata
2:07
Like J.S. Bach crossed with BeBop
Solo:Makiko Hirata piano
Toft Serenade for violin and piano (2006)
Charles Morey, violin and Frank Huang, piano
18.
I
3:11
19.
II
3:35
20.
Starlight Ribbons for solo piano (2013)
14:27
Solo:Daniel Schlosberg piano
Total time: 79:12
Engineering and post-production by Christopher L. Willis
Notes
Volume 1 of this series devoted to Augusta Read Thomas’s music concentrated upon orchestral and concertante works, with the intention of giving the listener a sense of this composer’s virtuosic command of large forces allied to a kaleidoscopic sense of colour and a formal fluidity which defies attempts at cut-and-dried analysis. Volume 2 also emphasizes the latter two attributes, but does so by shifting focus on music of a more intimate nature. Six of the nine works gathered here are for various chamber combinations. The other three, which occupy the greater part of this album’s playing time, are solo piano works, and span the entire chronological range of this collection.
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Reviews
" Throughout this programme, the performances (mostly by the dedicatees or those who gave the premiere) are unfailingly responsive to Thomas’s finely wrought and bracingly immediate language Those who have acquired the earlier disc will need no prompting with its successor.
Richard Whitehouse - Gramophone magazine - August 2014
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