Chamber Symphony / Cool Fire / Autumn Song

MusicWeb - Recording of the Year 2008

"This contains some of the most interesting contemporary music around played with panache." (MusicWeb)

"Here's some more outstanding chamber music from one of America's most distinguished living composers, Paul Moravec (b. 1957). A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, he has been the recipient of several prestigious commissions, and won a Pulitzer in 2004. While his music is definitely contemporary in spirit and obviously the work of a highly creative intellect, there are triadic and tonal elements present that make it immediately appealing." Classical Lost and Found

Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2004, the prolific American composer Paul Moravec writes in a musical idiom that offers an underlying romanticism tempered by distinctively modern discipline, qualities evident in the three works collected here. Chamber Symphony was commissioned for the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's twentieth-anniversary season in 2003 and is dedicated, writes the composer, 'with admiration to its wonderful artists'. Autumn Song is a gentle song without words while Cool Fire, also commissioned by Marya Martin and the Bridgehampton Festival, is a chamber concerto unusually scored for flute and piano quintet.