Irwin Bazelon: Trajectories, Spires & Legends and Love Letters

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Release Date: 1st Jan 1992
Catalogue No: TROY054
Label: Albany
Length: 66 minutes

Bazelon: Spires

Work length16:07

Album only

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maurice Murphy
Harold Farberman

Bazelon: Legends and Love Letters

Work length17:03

$5.00

$7.00

Collage New Music, Joan Heller
Charles Fussell

My Grandmother's Love Letters

Track length5:46

$1.00

$1.40

March

Track length3:20

$1.00

$1.40

Legend

Track length3:47

$1.00

$1.40

Forgetfulness

Track length2:43

$1.00

$1.40

October-November

Track length1:27

$1.00

$1.40

Bazelon: Trajectories

Work length33:44

$5.50

$7.70

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wanda Maximilien
Harold Farberman

Track length12:39

$2.00

$2.80

Track length12:47

$2.00

$2.80

III

Track length8:18

$1.50

$2.10

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Since the death of the American composer Irwin Bazelon in August 1995, there has been a marked increase in interest in his music. Three of his most representative works are included on this recording. "Spires" was composed in 1981. It was not premiered however, until February 6, 1989 by the Orchestre National de Lille with Harold Farberman conducting. The work is not a formal concerto for trumpet and orchestra but rather an orchestral composition with a large solo trumpet part including a written jazz-scat section against orchestral forces. "Trajectories" for solo piano with orchestra was composed in 1985. In this concerto, it was the composer's intention to avoid some of the 19th century mannerisms of solo instrumental works with orchestra, and, in this context avoid the traditional confrontation between piano and orchestra. The listener will also hear that the composer has attempted to exclude extensive virtuoso octave passages for the piano and to eliminate rapid arpeggios up and down the piano keyboard. About his work "Legends and Love Letters" the composer writes: "I have selected five Imagist poems of Hart Crane (c. 1920) that reflect this esteemed American poet's lyricism and nostalgic sentiment. It was my intention to capture in my music these essential elements, in addition to the bold dramatic statements that represent the contrasting counterpoint inherent in Hart Crane's poetry. In these pieces, I conceived the soprano part as a narrator's voice, singing the poet's lines through a small ensemble background, but always maintaining a soloist's position of dominance. Hart Crane's eloquent lyrical voice is primary; it must be allowed to occupy center stage."

Irwin Bazelon: Trajectories, Spires & Legends and Love Letters

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