Irina Muresanu, Ethan Filner, Jennifer Kloetzel & Sarah Bob
Release Date: 19 January 2015
Label: Avie
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252231922
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
'Lift' combines solo and chamber works for strings and piano by award-winning composer Elena Ruehr, all with references to older music in some way and frequently inspired and influenced by other people.
Award-winning composer Elena Ruehr's AVIE debut, 'Averno', introduced three of her big and bold works for choir and orchestra. For her follow up, Ruehr scales down to intimate solo and chamber works for strings and piano, all with references to older music in some way. Baroque elements infuse Klein Suite for solo violin, Prelude Variations for viola and piano, and The Scarlatti Effect for piano trio. The three movements of the jazz-tinged Second Violin Sonata, are dedicated to people who have influenced Ruehr's work: her composition teacher William Bolcom, jazz teacher Eddie Russ, and Oscar Peterson whom Ruehr met on New Year's Eve 1980. Adrienne and Amy was written in honour of the pioneering American composer Amy Beach and her biographer Adrienne Fried Block. The virtuosic and lyrical title track for solo cello was inspired by Nobel Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani school pupil and education activist. Boston-based Ruehr, whose wide-ranging works are performed from coast to coast, teaches at MIT. In 2014 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Personnel: Irina Muresanu (violin), Ethan Filner (viola), Jennifer Kloetzel (cello), Sarah Bob (piano)
Critical acclaim for Elena Ruehr:
"Sumptuously scored and full of soaring melodies and piquant harmonies." - The New York Times
"Music with heart and a forceful sense of character and expression." - The Washington Post
"Clothed in rhythmic and harmonic complexity that engages the emotions and stimulates the musical mind." - Audiophile Audition
Tracklisting
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Christopher Tyler Nickel, Sarah Jackson
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Bruce Wolosoff
Charles Owen
Proteus Ensemble; Stephen Shellard
Benjamin Hochman
Apollo's Fire; Jeannette Sorrell
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
