Tony Arnold - Inflorescence: Music from Soundscape - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

David Liptak, longtime composition faculty member of the Eastman School of Music, releases this compilation of his music for wind ensemble, written for and inspired by the august group at his institution. Featuring soprano Tony Arnold in the four movement InchFolgore's MonthsInch based on 14th century Italian sonnets, Liptak's broad sources of inspiration and sensitivity to lyricism and orchestration pervade this . 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 orchestras and chamber music groups including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Group for Contemporary Music, EARPLAY, the Ying, Cassatt, and JACK String Quartets, the Dinosaur Annex Ensemble, the New York New Music Ensemble, the 20th-Century Consort, baritone William Sharp, soprano Tony Arnold, and by many other soloists and ensembles. In 1995 David Liptak was awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Prize, given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of distinguished achievement in the field of chamber music composition. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, both in 2002, and he is the 2006 recipient of the Lillian Fairchild Award from the University of Rochester.

Soprano Tony Arnold and guitarist Daniel Lippel both members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) take a pause from new music to delve into the intimate world of Franz Schubert's lieder. These transcriptions for solo guitar and soprano and guitar are based on historical transcriptions made by Schubert's contemporary Johann Kaspar Mertz (for solo guitar) and published by Schubert's publishers (for voice and guitar). Mr. Lippel performs these works on a period reproduction of a 19th Century Stauffer guitar made by German luthier Bernhard Kresse. The selected songs are culled together into a song cycle tracing a journey from alienation to despair to renewal. Ms. Arnold and Mr. Lippel lend their insightful interpretive approaches to this canonic repertoire shedding new light on twelve of Schubert's most beautiful songs.

Longtime collaborators Tony Arnold and Jacob Greenberg a poignant recording of Olivier Messiaen's evocative song cycle Harawi Song of Love and Death. Inspired by songs from the Quechua culture of the Andean region of South America, these songs are deeply evocative and colorful, engaging themes of love, tragedy and death.