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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Violin Concerto; Rituals
 
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Violin Concerto; Rituals

~ Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (Composer), Michael Stern (Conductor), Nexus (Ensemble), IRIS Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra), Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), et al.
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  • Orchestra: IRIS Chamber Orchestra, Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Michael Stern
  • Composer: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
  • Audio CD (29 Aug 2005)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B000AMMSOE
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 76,001 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Violin Concerto: I. Quarter note = ca. 62Pamela Frank 8:46Album Only
Listen  2. Violin Concerto: II. Quarter note = ca. 58Pamela Frank 7:22£0.69
Listen  3. Violin Concerto: III. Quarter note = ca. 152Pamela Frank 9:54Album Only
Listen  4. Rituals: I. InvocationMichael Stern 6:10£0.69
Listen  5. Rituals: II. AmbulationMichael Stern 5:47£0.69
Listen  6. Rituals: III. RemembrancesMichael Stern 6:26£0.69
Listen  7. Rituals: IV. ContestsMichael Stern 7:35£0.69


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5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Buying for the Violin Concerto's Middle Movement Alone, 2 Oct 2005
By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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When Ellen Taafe Zwilich wrote her Violin Concerto in 1998 she brought a violinist's perspective to it; she had played in Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra for a number of years. She chose Pamela Frank, the extraordinary violinist daughter of two pianists (Claude Frank and Lilian Kallir), to play its première with the Orchestra of St. Luke's under Hugh Wolff. In this recording, made in 1998 (before Frank began experiencing hand problems that necessitated her taking a long hiatus from playing), the orchestra is that of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Saarbrücken (Germany) under its music director, Michael Stern, the son of another great musician, Isaac Stern. Soloist and orchestra meld effortlessly in this remarkably musical performance. The concerto has since made the rounds and almost universally critics and music-lovers comment about the intense beauty of the work's middle movement. It is a meditation on the first few notes (chords, really) of Bach's great unaccompanied 'Chaconne in D Minor' (from the Violin Partita No. 2, BWV 1004). But I'm getting ahead of myself. The first movement is a rhapsodic andante that has several cadenza-like passages for the violin (the concerto does not have a formal cadenza in any of its movements). It celebrates, among other things, the interval of a minor ninth. The second movement follows without pause, is only slightly slower than the first and according to the composer's directions is 'quiet, but intensely vocal with lots of shading.' In her article about the concerto at its première the late Shirley Fleming in the New York Post called the concerto 'a wonderfully engaging work' and commented on how Zwilich took the Chaconne melody and built it to an almost menacing climax - 'a theme of fate.' The third movement, the concerto's longest, traverses a number of different styles and ends quietly with the violin soaring mellifluously above the deep-voiced orchestra. The headline of the New York Times's article about the première called the concerto 'A Love Song to the Violin.' Apt words. This is a meltingly beautiful work.

The CD concludes with 'Rituals,' a concerto for percussion ensemble and orchestra. The principals are the 35-year-old five-member percussion group, NEXUS, accompanied by the IRIS Chamber Orchestra, also led by Michael Stern who founded the Germantown (Memphis), Tennessee group. IRIS has made some marvelous recordings, including one devoted to music of Stephen Hartke which I reviewed enthusiastically here. [I must add that Stern has just started his tenure as music director of my own home orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, and if his recent first subscription concert is any indication, we're in for exciting times.] 'Rituals' is in four movements. Frankly it didn't do much for me, but perhaps that's because I've never been particularly fascinated by percussion solo or concerted pieces (although I did rather like Michael Torke's percussion concerto 'Rapture.') Still, it is expertly written and played and I am sure that others will find it fascinating.

Even with my idiosyncratic non-response to 'Rituals,' I unreservedly recommend this disc for the Violin Concerto which I venture to place in the same league as George Rochberg's and John Adams's recently recorded violin concertos.

Scott Morrison

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