American Vistas - Corigliano, Amlin

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	3 Irish Folksong Settings - No. 1. Salley Gardens
	3 Irish Folksong Settings - No. 2. The Foggy Dew
	3 Irish Folksong Settings - No. 3. She Moved Through the Fair
	2 Songs on Poems of Anne Fessenden - No. 1. Lookout
	2 Songs on Poems of Anne Fessenden - No. 2. The Song Wheel
	Cantilena I - Cantilena I
	3 Poems of Marianne Moore - No. 1. No Swan So Fine
	3 Poems of Marianne Moore - No. 2. What Are Years?
	3 Poems of Marianne Moore - No. 3. To a Prize Bird
	I heard in the night - I heard in the night
	Lullaby - Lullaby
	Patterns - Patterns
	Lumina II - Lumina II
	In the Meantime - No. 1. In the Meantime
	In the Meantime - No. 2. Inside
	In the Meantime - No. 3. Your Joy
	As it fell upon a day - As it fell upon a day

Album Summary

Corigliano, John : She Moved Through the Fair (John Corigliano)

Amlin, Martin : Songs (2) on Poems of Anne Fessenden for voice, alto flute & piano

Gaburo, Kenneth : Cantilena One, for solo voice

Blake, Braxton : Songs (3) on Poems by Marianne Moore, for voice & flute

Cowell, Henry : I Heard in the Night, song for voice & piano (or flute, clarinet or viola), HC 826

Shapey, Ralph : Lullaby, for voice & flute

Gendel, Scott : Patterns, for voice, flute & piano

Stallmann, Kurt : Lumina 2, for flute

Bosch, Maura : In the Meantime, for voice & flute

Copland, Aaron : As it fell upon a day, song for soprano, flute & clarinet

Performers

Mimmi Fulmer (Soprano)
Leone Buyse (Flute)
Martin Amlin (Piano)
Scott Gendel (Piano)
Michael Webster (Clarinet)

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Notes & Reviews:

The 11 works on this compact disc represent four generations of American composers and a compositional time span of eight decades. In the ensemble repertoire for voice and flute, only Corigliano's 'Three Irish Folksong Settings' and Copland's 'As It Fell Upon a Day' enjoy wide recognition; the remaining works are relatively unknown and deserving of a broader audience.

"This is a welcome addition to a rarefied repertoire, though it makes such a good argument for the medium of voice and flute, that one wonders why there's not so much more music written for it. The pieces fall into two paired categories: (1) music by masters (all but one deceased), and that by younger composers, and (2) works with a more modernist bent, and those rooted in tonality and folksong. The two overlap throughout, and provide some surprises along the way...Of the younger composers, all write naturally for the voice, but two strike me more strongly, one of them particularly so. Martin Amlin (b. 1953) wrote his trio in 1997; the composer is at the piano, and alto flute is Buyse's instrument here...The big discovery for me is Maura Bosch (b. 1956). Her three settings from 2005 of poems by Jim Moore have an almost perfect balance between the voice and flute, both in terms of sound and function...Only Copland, Corigliano, and Cowell have been recorded earlier, so this is largely a disc of premieres. Again, it suggests this is a medium that composers should explore more frequently, as it deserves a rich and plentiful repertoire." - Robert Carl, Fanfare

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