Maria Schneider Orchestra: Winter Morning Walks

Straightahead / Mainstream Jazz
premiera polska: 2013-10-01
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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"Lyrical, flowing, intimately expressive, with all the elements of words, music, voice and instruments in a seamless blend, this is music to fall in love with the first time - then immediately want to hear again." -John Montanari, NPR" Winter Morning Walks is a sterling standard for American art song." -Jeff Kaliss, San Francisco Classical Voice Winner of THREE GRAMMY AWARDS 2014 (Best Vocal Performance, Best Contemporary Classical Composition & Best Classical Engineered Recording), Winter Morning Walks is the first partnership between Schneider and Upshaw, bringing together two preeminent figures in jazz and classical music. Schneider has been commissioned to compose for jazz orchestras and artists all over the world, & has won multiple GRAMMY Awards. Writing for TIME Magazine, Terry Teachout said, “To call Schneider the most important woman in jazz is missing the point ... She’s a major composer–period.” Upshaw was also deemed “one of the most consequential performers of our time” by the LA TIMES, is a multiple GRAMMY winner and MacArthur Fellow, and has performed at the Metropolitan Opera over 300 times. In 2004 Schneider pioneered the fan-funding model through ArtistShare® with Concert In The Garden, the first web-exclusive recording to win a GRAMMY. With Winter Morning Walks she has become one of the first artists to record major orchestras with fan-funding methods. Winter Morning Walks features the Australian Chamber Orchestra & consists of nine pieces including poetry by Ted Kooser, taken from his book of the same name. Three musicians long associated with Schneider’s jazz orchestra, Jay Anderson, Frank Kimbrough, and Scott Robinson, seamlessly add colorful improvisation throughout these pieces. Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories features The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and consists of five songs with poetry by Carlos Drummond de Andrade of Brazil.


"WINTER MORNING WALKS"
Composed by Maria Schneider
Poems by Ted Kooser
Written for and performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Dawn Upshaw, Jay Anderson (bass), Frank Kimbrough (piano) & Scott Robinson (alto clarinet & bass clarinet)

"CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE STORIES"
Composed by Maria Schneider
English Translations of Carlos Drummond de Andrade poetry by Mark Strand
Written for & performed by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra & Dawn Upshaw
Conducted by Maria Schneider

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AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA:

Violins
Richard Tognetti, director and violin
Satu Vänskä, principal violin
Eriikka Maalismaa
Madeleine Boud
Rebecca Chan
Alice Evans
Aiko Goto
Mark Ingwersen
Ilya Isakovich
Veronique Serret

Violas
Christopher Moore, principal and low register pianist (prepared piano) on "When I Switched on a Light"
Nikki Divall
Alissa Smith

Cellos
Timo-Veikko Valve, principal
Julian Thompson
Eve Silver

Orchestral Bass
Ali Yazdanfar, guest principal

WITH GUESTS:
Alto Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
Scott Robinson, guest

Piano
Frank Kimbrough, guest

Bass
Jay Anderson, guest


THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA:

Violins
Steven Copes, concertmaster
Ruggero Allifranchini, associate concertmaster
Kyu-Young Kim, principal second violin
Thomas Kornacker, co-principal second violin
Daria T. Adams
Sunmi Chang
Nina Tso-Ning Fan
Brenda Manuel Mickens
Elsa Nilsson
Leslie Shank
Michal Sobieski
Peter McGuire, guest

Violas
Maiya Papach, acting principal
Evelina Chao, assistant principal
Tamás Strasser
Che-Hung Chen, guest

Cellos
Peter Stumpf, guest principal
Sarah Lewis
David Huckaby
Pitnarry Shin, guest

Basses
Christopher Brown, principal
Fred Bretschger, assistant principal

Flutes
Julia Bogorad-Kogan, principal
Alicia McQuerrey

Oboes
Kathryn Greenbank, principal
Thomas Tempel, oboe and English horn

Clarinet
Timothy Paradise, principal

Bassoons
Charles Ullery, principal
Carole Mason Smith

French Horns
Michael Gast, guest principal
Paul Straka

Trumpets
Douglas Carlsen, guest principal
Lynn Erickson

Piano
Timothy Lovelace, guest

utwory:
1. Winter Morning Walks: Perfectly Still This Solstice Morning
2. Winter Morning Walks: When I Switched On a Light
3. Winter Morning Walks: Walking by Flashlight
4. Winter Morning Walks: I Saw a Dust Devil This Morning
5. Winter Morning Walks: My Wife and I Walk the Cold Road
6. Winter Morning Walks: All Night, in Gusty Winds
7. Winter Morning Walks: Our Finch Feeder
8. Winter Morning Walks: Spring, the Sky Rippled with Geese
9. Winter Morning Walks: How Important It Must Be
10. Carlos Drummond De Andrade Stories: Prologue
11. Carlos Drummond De Andrade Stories: The Dead in Frock Coats
12. Carlos Drummond De Andrade Stories: Souvenir of the Ancient World
13. Carlos Drummond De Andrade Stories: Don't Kill Yourself
14. Carlos Drummond De Andrade Stories: Quadrille

wydano: 2013-10-01
more info2: www.mariaschneider.com