The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Release Date: 04 October 2024
Label: Avie
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252271324
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
TON and Leon Botstein have helped rescue a growing list of works from oblivion, rediscoveries that bring us wonderful music we might never have encountered otherwise and remind us there is more to music history than the standard fare. This album unites three German-speaking Jewish composers, born within a few years of one another in the first decade of the 20th century. All three were lucky enough to escape the Holocaust and start anew after the traumatic interruption of the war years. Their works recorded here were all written during the 1940s: in Jerusalem, Bombay (Mumbai) and Mexico City, respectively. They show three young composers striving to find their own voices, while at the same time trying to adapt to their new environments.
'The writing for the baritone is quite declamatory, and hard going at times (as is, of course, the story that is being told), but I did very much enjoy the writing for the orchestra, which in its lighter textures is a contrast to the vocal writing.' – Music Web International
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
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
