Ramon Salvatore - Music in the American Grain - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Son in G I. Allegro Maestoso 2. Son in G II. Andante Cantabile 3. Son in G III. Allegro Vivace 4. Sonnet II 5. Three Moods I. Embittered 6. Three Moods II. Wistful 7. Three Moods III. Jazzy 8. The Cat and the Mouse 9. Passacaglia 10. Down a Country Lane 11. Midsummer Nocturne 12. Proclamation 13. Midday Thoughts 14. Pno Fant I. Slow 15. Pno Fant II. Rubato 16. Pno Fant III. Beginning a Little Slowly 17. Pno Fant IV. Quite Fast and Rhythmic 18. Pno Fant V. Suddenly Fast 19. Pno Fant VI. As at First

Dream is a musical journey through the sound of the electric guitar in American concert music, based on sonic research and on the simplicity and beauty of the electric guitar timbre and colors. Sorrentino's transcription of Dream by John Cage opens the program. This version demonstrates the pure beauty of the electric guitar's clean sound with only the addition of light reverb. Alpha Aloha by Jack Vees is an experimental composition, where the electric guitar sound is electronically processed. The sounds result from playing guitar through various digital filters which slowly open and close at different rates, the resonance is set in such a way as to let some notes through with more strength than others. It creates an ocean of sound. David Lang's Warmth, for two electric guitars, explores the warm sound of the tube amp. No effects, only the overdrive and gradually increasing amp saturation. The graphic score Mare Undarum by Elliott Sharp is an invitation to a free improvisation. Quoting Sharp InchSorrentino uses a variety of techniques on his electric guitar to vividly transform the score into a rarefied and hyperreal landscape. His direct and unadorned Stratocaster tone is rich with harmonics and deep with resonance.Inch Rose of Beans by Alvin Curran, is an extrapolated fragment for electric guitar solo from a larger ensemble piece. This is the first the lost electric guitar composition by Morton Feldman, The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar. Originally composed for Christian Wolff, it was reconstructed by guitarist Seth Josel. Both of Christian Wolff's works for electric guitar are included here. Album Tracks 1. Dream 2. Warmth 3. Alpha Aloha 4. Mare Undarum 5. Rose of Beans 6. The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar 7. Going West 8. An Unhappy Set of Coincidences 9. Urutora-Man 10. Another Possibility

The phenomenon of legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram defies easy definitions. Always ahead of his time in anything that he created, and immersed in jazz, folk, world music, film and theater music, as well as in contemporary classical music, he was praised by The Washington Post as Inchone of the most versatile and skilled musicians America has ever producedInch, while The Boston Globe hailed him as Inchthe Renaissance man of American musicInch, and The New York Times proclaimed him Inchmulticultural before multiculturalism existedInch. Being first and being ahead of his time comes naturally to David Amram - a pioneer of the jazz French Horn who simultaneously amassed the highest number of performances of the Brahms Horn Trio, while fascinating the crowds at folk and world music festivals, writing several books, composing scores for films and plays, touring worldwide, collaborating with iconic figures like Jack Kerouac, Elia Kazan, Pete Seeger, Paquito D'Rivera and Tito Puente, and at the same time also making his mark as a celebrated prolific composer of classical music, having written over 100 works in the symphonic, operatic and chamber music genres. Amram's legacy is a huge collection of so many milestones and inroads, that have established him as not only one of the most eclectic composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, but also as a guiding light, role model and enormous source of inspiration for younger generations. This album presents selected chamber music compositions written by David Amram between 1958 and 2017, and includes four world-premiere recordings. Album Tracks 1. Three Lost Loves for Violin, Alto Saxophone and Piano (2016) 2. The Wind and the Rain for Viola and Piano (1958) 3. Sonata for Violin and Piano (1960) 4. Portraits for Piano Quartet (1979) 5. Elegy for Violin and Piano (1970) 6. Two Excerpts from Jack