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Release Date: 22 August 2025
Label: Avie
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252275124
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Composer/Series: Short Stories in London
Description
Creative collaboration is central to American composer Joel Puckett's career, a spirit that unites the three works on this recording. Each work represents a partnership between Puckett's vibrant creative imagination and a particular musician, or group of musicians.
Puckett's new Trumpet Concerto (2024), his second for the instrument, was written for the distinguished jazz trumpeter Sean Jones. It's a homage of sorts to another American classic conceived for a great jazz musician, Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto, which was commissioned and premiered by Benny Goodman. The work is a personal response to Jones's artistry, showcasing his dazzling high register and individual articulations and inflections that are unique to his playing.
The orchestral song cycle There Was a Child Went Forth was created for Grammy Award winning tenor Nicholas Phan. The music is accessible and inward, much like the verses by Walt Whitman. It's a work of celebration, composed in 2023 for the 225th anniversary of the United States President's Own Marine Band. Inspiration came from Phan's love of Whitman, and synergy from Whitman's written reviews of the Marine Band.'
The album's title track Short Stories is a string quartet concerto, which has been widely performed since its 2013 premiere. Principal players of the London Symphony Orchestra shine as the soloists, at times playing as individuals, at others as a unit with their orchestral colleagues providing a resplendent accompaniment.
Tracklisting
Joel Puckett
National Philharmonic, Curtis Stewart, Michael Repper
Theatro
Susan Narucki, Curtis Macomber
Cantata Collective; Nicholas McGegan
Elena Ruehr; Stephen Salters; Donald Berman; David Zobel
Vancouver Chamber Choir & Contemporary Orchestra, Clyde Mitchell
Anthony de Mare; Conrad Tao
Joel Puckett
The Lyris Quartet; Cedric Berry, Alyssa Park, Timothy Loo, Michael Matsuno, Jon Stehney, Sidney Hop
Hannah Kendall, Ensemble Modern, Anne Denholm-Blair, Halle Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham, Jonathan Mo
Marco Fusi
Kate Ledger
Kristine Tjogersen
Flygmaskin
Peter Pichler, Melanie Dreher, Harald Genzmer, Paul Hindemith, Paul Dessau, Henry Purcell
