Tsontakis: Anasa / True Colors / Unforgettable
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GEORGE TSONTAKIS
Tsontakis: Anasa / True Colors / Unforgettable
Eric Berlin, Luosha Fang, Eunice Kim, David Krakauer / Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 7 August 2017
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Over the last few years American composer George Tsontakis, winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, has crafted three distinctive and exciting additions to the contemporary concerto repertoire. Anasa, for clarinet and orchestra, combines elements of the Klezmer tradition with dance themes inspired by the lyra and lauto, traditional Cretan instruments. In True Colors the trumpet journeys in harmonically vivid, jazz-tinged directions, while Unforgettable balances the meditative with the playful, moving from ballad to phantasmagoria in a double concerto of drama and drive.
"These recent concertos demonstrate Tsontakis's remarkable ability to absorb and transform sources as disparate as klezmer and popular song. Conductor Miller is one of the composer's most ardent champions. Many of the composer's early works, including the magnificent Four Symphonic Quartets, were issued on the now-defunct Koch label and are well worth hunting down." Gramophone
