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A 90th Birthday Celebration
Siwoo Kim, violin · Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt · Emily Freeman Brown
Linn RecordsReleased 23 February 2018
Siwoo Kim performs Samuel Adler’s only violin concerto, which he wrote for him when he was a student and Adler was a professor at the Juilliard School.
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Linn Records have issued this 3-CD set to commemorate the 90th birthday of Samuel Adler, one of America's most influential and prolific composers. The aim is to provide a conspectus of his work, with a very personal emphasis. The first two CDs offer orchestral music played by the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, conducted by Adler’s second wife Emily Freeman Brown. The third CD puts the guitar centre-stage, and features young performers from the Eastman School of Music, where the composer spent thirty years of his career teaching.
Track list
Siwoo Kim plays
Disc 2
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
- 4I. Vigorous9:01
- 5II. Slowly and Expressively5:41
- 6III. Cadenza – Fast and With a Happy Spirit7:17
The whole set3 discs · 36 tracks · 3:19:34
Disc 11:12:32
Symphony No. 1
- 1I. Gently Moving8:01
- 2II. Very Slowly7:25
- 3III. Vigorous and Very Rhythmic5:55
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1
- 4I. Slowly and Very Free – Very Fast9:47
- 5II. Very Slowly8:42
- 6III. Hard Driving9:36
Man Lebt Nur Einmal "One Lives but Once"
- 7I. Rumble2:43
- 8II. Schleier-Walzer "Veiled Waltz"3:22
- 9III. Erratische Rumba "Erratic Rumba"5:07
- 10IV. Pavane6:44
- 11V. Tarantella5:10
Disc 21:06:43
Symphony No. 2
- 1I. Quite Slowly – Fast8:54
- 2II. Slowly7:07
- 3III. Fast and Triumphant5:41
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
- 4I. Vigorous9:01
- 5II. Slowly and Expressively5:41
- 6III. Cadenza – Fast and With a Happy Spirit7:17
Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Orchestra "Shir HaMa’alot"
- 7I. Fast, Rhythmic, and Very Energetic7:15
- 8II. Slowly and Very Expressively – Suddenly Faster – Slowly Again8:36
- 9III. Fast and Jubilant7:11
Disc 31:00:19
Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra
- 1I. Very Fast and Rhythmic7:15
- 2II. Slowly and Expressively – Suddenly Faster – Slowly Tempo I Again9:43
- 3III. Fast and With Good Spirit6:27
Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light
- 4I. Delicate and Quite Fast4:04
- 5II. Slowly and Freely Moving3:09
- 6III. Fast and Rhythmic3:29
Ports of Call "A Mediterranean Suite"
- 7I. Marseille (With a Happy Spirit)2:38
- 8II. Alexandria (Slowly and Expressively)4:34
- 9III. Salonika (With Wild Abandon)1:39
- 10IV. Haifa (With a Slow Lilt)3:23
- 11V. Valencia (Fast and Exuberant)3:05
Five Choral Scherzi
- 12I. V. B. Nimble, V. B. Quick1:58
- 13II. Sucking Cider Through a Straw1:06
- 14III. No!3:24
- 15IV. The Choice2:39
- 16V. Tarantella1:46
Press
“Siwoo Kim’s impassioned playing adds notable fire to the busy textures…”
BBC Music Magazine
Credits
- Violin Concerto
- Siwoo Kim, violinBrandenburgisches Staatsorchester FrankfurtEmily Freeman Brown, conductor
