Tower - Made In America, Tambor, Concerto for Orchestra | Naxos - American Classics 8559328

Tower - Made In America, Tambor, Concerto for Orchestra

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559328

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th April 2007

Contents

Artists

Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Leonard Slatkin

Works

Tower, Joan

Concerto for Orchestra
Made in America
Tambor

Artists

Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Leonard Slatkin

About

Joan Tower’s bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won her large, enthusiastic audiences. Made in America is a fantasy on the theme of the unofficial national anthem, America the Beautiful, and its orchestration depicts the colour and landscape of the country. 
 
The work has already been performed in all fifty states, an unprecedented achievement for a brand-new composition. The rhythmically driven Tambor demonstrates Tower’s self-proclaimed passion for percussion, and her Concerto for Orchestra features solo passages from individual instruments, requiring precision and virtuosity from soloists and ensemble alike.
 
The first issue of Tower’s music, 8559215, was acclaimed thus in the Guardian: “… this collection of chamber works suggests we are missing out on a considerable musical voice, one who has forged a distinctive style from a variety of contemporary models including serialism and Messiaen.”

• Having featured recently on another American Classics release, John Adams’s Violin Concerto (together with Chloe Hänslip), Leonard Slatkin directs the Nashville Symphony in an incisive performance.

World premiere recordings of Made in America and Tambor.

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