Liptak / Arnold / Snyder - Dove Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Composer David Liptak releases a collection of chamber works, featuring the cycle,InchDove Songs,Inch written for soprano Tony Arnold with pianist Alison D'Amato. Liptak, longtime composition professor at the Eastman School of Music, writes music that is expressively rich and poignantly lyrical. Rounding out the program are pieces for guitar, cello and piano, and violin and piano, featuring guitarist Dieter Hennings, cellist Steven Doane, violinist Renee Jolles, and pianists Margaret Kampmeier and Barry Snyder. David Liptak's music has been described as Inchluminous and arresting,Inch Inchrichly atmospheric,Inch and having Inchtransparent textures, incisive rhythms, shimmering lightness.Inch His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and abroad by the San Francisco Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and many others. Album Tracks 1. Dove Songs~Refrain 2. Dove Songs~The Snow King 3. Dove Songs~Catherine of Alexandria 4. Dove Songs~Beauty and the Beast 5. Dove Songs~Catherine of Siena 6. Dove Songs~Flirtation 7. Impromptus~Rhapsodic 8. Impromptus~Lyrical 9. Impromptus~Quick and agile 10. Sighs~Picasso's Blue Guitar 11. Sighs~Les Soupirs 12. Sighs~The Unicorn 13. Sighs~Idée Fixe 14. Sighs~Beautiful Dreamer 15. Sighs~Memory's Persistence 16. Sighs~Petite Reprise 17. Sonata for Cello and Piano~Lontano 18. Sonata for Cello and Piano~Caccia