Windswept: Modern Chamber Music for Winds

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Release Date: 23rd Aug 2019
Catalogue No: NV6245
Label: Navona Records
Length: 45 minutes

Järvlepp: Woodwind Quintet

Work length15:55

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Vanessa Holroyd (flute), Jennifer Slowik, Rane Moore (clarinet), Clark Matthews, Janet Underhill (bassoon)

Woodwind Quintet: I. Rollercoaster

Track length6:22

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Woodwind Quintet: II. Solitude

Track length6:07

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Woodwind Quintet: III. Pyrotechnics

Track length3:26

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De Sena: Sonorous Earth

Work length8:46

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Vanessa Holroyd (alto flute), Jennifer Slowik, Rane Moore (bass clarinet), Clark Matthews, Janet Underhill (contrabassoon)

David MacDonald: Stumpery

Work length4:55

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Vanessa Holroyd (flute), Jennifer Slowik (oboe), Rane Moore (clarinet), Clark Matthews, Janet Underhill (bassoon)

Craig Peaslee: Dirge & Second Line

Work length5:46

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Vanessa Holroyd (flute), Jennifer Slowik (oboe), Rane Moore (clarinet), Clark Matthews, Janet Underhill (bassoon)

Kuhn, K A: Varitaions on a Commoner Theme, No. 1

Work length10:25

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Vanessa Holroyd (flute), Jennifer Slowik, Rane Moore (clarinet), Clark Matthews, Janet Underhill (bassoon)

Variations on a Commoner Theme, No. 1

Track length10:25

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Throughout WINDSWEPT, the Boston-based Arcadian Winds project a storytelling experience that is joyful, moving, and meaningful to hear. The three-movement Woodwind Quintet by Canadian composer Jan Järvlepp starts off WINDSWEPT. The first movement, “Rollercoaster," invokes a childlike whimsy with a noticeable pop influence. This is followed by “Solitude," a more mature and romantic movement of music. Woodwind Quintet concludes with “Pyrotechnics," a piece rooted in texture. Sonorous Earth, written by Miami composer Ferdinando DeSena, offers a down-to-earth, stable tone. While offering no less lyricism in his compositions, DeSena’s storytelling is built from his ability to interweave these instruments in the lower tonal register. Stumpery, the third piece, is also based on this very concept of interwoven melodies. Composed by David MacDonald, the inspiration behind the piece is the complex network of a stumpery, or a type of garden in which the roots of trees tangle around one another. While the roots are represented by the linear melodies of the instruments, MacDonald establishes a unique ambient sound incorporating reverberations of the instruments, emphasizing the space left by the tendrils of the roots. Dirge & Second Line by Craig Peaslee experiments with the dictation of the New Orleans jazz style. Using a classical chamber ensemble, he juxtaposes some of the intricacies of classical notation with the loose, laid-back energies of the jazz music he works with. Concluding the album, Kenneth Kuhn’s Variations on a Commoner Theme, No. 1 builds a musical story of the quest of a theme in the lowest class of musical hierarchy seeking to become noble. The wind quintet chronicles the various attempts via varying personalities of tempo, key change, and tone. The mood and melody start from the lowest class, build themselves up with grandiose ambitions, and after a fall into despair, level out in the final measures in a noble atmosphere of bright, optimistic acceptance.

Windswept: Modern Chamber Music for Winds

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