Contemporary American Composers: Glass, Montgomery, Raimi
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Label: CSO Resound
Cat No: CSOR9012301
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 11th August 2023
Contents
Artists
Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano)Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Riccardo MutiWorks
Symphony no.11Hymn for Everyone
Lisel Mueller Settings (3)
Artists
Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano)Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Riccardo MutiAbout
The works by Montgomery and Raimi were both their first CSO commissions, and these are their world-premiere performances. Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone is a meditation for orchestra that speaks to the significance of her emergence in today’s cultural climate through its reflection on the personal and collective challenges of the spring of 2021. In it, a hymn-like melody traverses different orchestral choirs to poignant effect.
For each poem in Raimi’s Three Lisel Mueller Settings, he selects an admired colleague to enter into a dialogue with the soloist, mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong. This highlights the talents of principal clarinet Stephen Williamson in a frenetic waltz, principal bassoon Keith Buncke in a tragic elegy and principal bass Alexander Hanna in a metaphor for hope, with soaring, song-like phrases that transcend standard conceptions of the instrument’s expressive possibilities.
Glass’s Eleventh Symphony is part of the symphonic tradition that captivated him as a student. Each movement has its own unique character - the first bold and driving, the second crowned by a slowly unfolding melody and the third a barrage of cascading energy and racing percussion.
For Glass in the 50s, it was Fritz Reiner. Now Riccardo Muti champions the compositional voices of the age with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. “It takes courage,” says Glass of the Orchestra’s legacy of performing contemporary music, “and that courage becomes a tradition.”
“Hymn for Everyone is undoubtedly greater than the sum of its parts. Its controlled release of emotion, meted out tactfully by Muti, […] gestures to something far deeper than what glimmers on its surface.” – Chicago Tribune
“Muti infuses the debut performance of Hymn for Everyone with smoldering intensity and nuanced drama.” – Chicago Sun-Times
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