Release Date: 11 January 2014
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099035675
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Current
Description
Leading young Canadian composer Brian Current, recipient of numerous distinguished international prizes, has collaborated with award-winning writer Anton Piatigorsky in an exciting work for voice and accompanying ensemble. Airline Icarus is set aboard an airliner in which, taking the myth of Icarus as the central image, the composer "explores themes of hubris mixed with technology". The result is a powerful, resonant work which won Current the Italian Premio Fedora Award in 2011. These contemporary works for voice and chamber and vocal ensemble show both his playful and darker sides. These are both premiere recordings. Inventory is something of a stream-of-consciousness and quite quirky. Airline Icarus - which won the Italian Premio Fedora Award in 2011 - is a much longer and more intense work exploring the thoughts of passengers and crew during a fateful flight. Current mixes traditional and contemporary elements in his music-making, meaning it is always excitingly developed but rooted in a recognizable language.
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
