Seeger: Vocal and Chamber Music
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RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
Seeger: Vocal and Chamber Music
Continuum / Cheryl Seltzer / Joel Sachs
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 January 2007
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Ruth Crawford Seeger was a pioneering figure of the American modernist movement. Her career can be divided into two distinct phases, separated by her studies with the composer and ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger, whom she married. Her earliest mature works, such as the Sonata for Violin and Piano, show a Scriabinesque post-Romantic sensibility. During her studies with Seeger, however, her music became more concentrated and controlled, as well as more daring and experimental. Her mastery reached its apotheosis with the Three Songs, a bold, original setting of poems by Carl Sandburg.
"Exercises in spartan combinations include two "Diaphonic Suites," for solo flute and for bassoon and cello. The three Carl Sandburg songs ride on a complex and dense instrumental accompaniment.
The musicians, including the mezzo-soprano Nan Hughes and the violinist Mia Wu, are those of Ms. Seltzer and Joel Sachs's long-honored ensemble, Continuum. Ms. Seltzer is the pianist here. Mr. Sachs conducts where needed." New York Times
Tracks:
Suite for Five Wind Instruments
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Two Ricercari
Prelude No. 1 - Andante
Prelude No. 9 - Tranquillo
Study in Mixed Accents
Diaphonic Suite No. 1 for Flute
Diaphonic Suite No. 2 for Bassoon and Cello
Three Songs
