Moravec - Useful Knowledge, etc | Naxos - American Classics 8559698

Moravec - Useful Knowledge, etc

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559698

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 3rd January 2012

Contents

Artists

Amy Burton (soprano)
Trio Solisti
Simon Mulligan (piano)
Randall Scarlata (baritone)
La Fenice
Cecilia Brauer (glass harmonica)

Works

Moravec, Paul

Characteristics
Useful Knowledge: A Franklin Fantasy
Vita Brevis (soprano and piano trio)

Artists

Amy Burton (soprano)
Trio Solisti
Simon Mulligan (piano)
Randall Scarlata (baritone)
La Fenice
Cecilia Brauer (glass harmonica)

About

This programme of musical portraits by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec encompasses a song cycle, a cantata and a solo piano work.

Vita Brevis
is a beautiful cycle of five songs that chart a birth-to-death journey, whereas Characteristics enshrines tributes from the composer to seven musical friends, three pianists, two composers, a violinist and a countertenor, in the form of pithy piano commentaries.

Moravec’s tribute to Benjamin Franklin, Useful Knowledge, is a soliloquy-come-fantasy that celebrates Franklin’s pioneering rationality with music of dextrous imagination.

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