Christopher Tyler Nickel: Symphony No. 2

Description

The vast, deep and emotional Symphony No. 2 by award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel – a single movement, 53-minute-long work – receives its world-premiere recording with Clyde Mitchell conducting the Seattle-based Northwest Sinfonia.

Vast, deep and emotional are apt descriptions of the single-movement, 53-minute-long Symphony No. 2 by Christopher Tyler Nickel. The award-winning Canadian composer elaborates, "One can think of this music as consisting of mirrors between ideas that equally disturb yet entice. Each side of the reflection is in itself conceivably valid, but when facing each other friction and dissonance are created. The exquisitely alluring and the grotesque exist simultaneously. Perhaps another way to understand the symphony is as a meditation on the state of cognitive dissonance." The entrepreneurial Clyde Mitchell conducts the Seattle-based Northwest Sinfonia on this world-premiere recording.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"Nickel's music is full of life: imagination, invention, variation … This is composition at its best – arresting and masterful." – The Whole Note

"Nickel paints the most vivid pictures with this single movement work. Epic without being at all overdone, the tension is built with thrilling orchestral textures…Riveting" – BBC Music Magazine, 4 STARS

"the athleticism of both Nickel's music and the performers is exhilarating … The orchestral writing is strikingly beautiful" -MusicWeb International (on Christopher Tyler Nickel's Concertos for Oboe – AV2433)

"An enjoyable and skillful set of neoclassic concertos for anyone" – AllMusic (on Christopher Tyler Nickel's Concertos for Oboe – AV2433)