Imbrie: Requiem/Piano Concerto 3

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Album Description
This release offers world premiere recordings of two major compositions by the masterful Andrew Imbrie, a student of Roger Sessions at Princeton. Imbrie's Requiem was written as a response to the sudden death of his son in1981. It is a deeply moving work of prodigious accomplishment, setting traditional liturgy alongside commentary in the form of poetry by William Blake. It may be considered one of the few truly great 20th Century American choral works. His Piano Concerto No. 3 was composed for Alan Feinberg and the Riverside Symphony, who perform the piece here. It occupied two years of the composer's life, and contains a wealth of rich musical thought. The opening is suggested by the insistent background of taxi horns in New York City, according to the composer, and the high intensity of the work, and this performance, constantly remind the listener of the musical energy levels of our urban envious. This recording was a 2000 Grammy Nominee.

Imbrie: Requiem/Piano Concerto 3, Music, Andrew Welsh Imbrie, George Rothman, Riverside Symphony, Alan Feinberg, Lisa Saffer, Choral, Choral Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Concerto, Orchestral & Symphonic

Average customer rating:

Overflows with Energy, Very Emotional

Knotty but accessible music

Imbrie: Requiem/Piano Concerto 3

Manufacturer: Bridge
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JWL0
Release Date: 1999-08-17

Tracks:

Requiem: 1. Requiem And Kyrie - Lisa Saffer/New York Virtuoso Singers
Requiem: 2. To The Evening Star - Lisa Saffer/New York Virtuoso Singers
Requiem: 3. Dies Irae - Lisa Saffer/New York Virtuoso Singers
Requiem: 4. Prayer - Lisa Saffer/New York Virtuoso Singers
Requiem: 5. Offertory - Lisa Saffer/New York Virtuoso Singers
Requiem: 6. Death Be Not Proud And Conclusion - Lisa Saffer/New York Virtuoso Singers
Pno Con No.3: 1. Allegro - Alan Feinberg
Pno Con No.3: 2. Lento - Alan Feinberg
Pno Con No.3: 4. Presto - Alan Feinberg

Album Description

This release offers world premiere recordings of two major compositions by the masterful Andrew Imbrie, a student of Roger Sessions at Princeton. Imbrie's Requiem was written as a response to the sudden death of his son in1981. It is a deeply moving work of prodigious accomplishment, setting traditional liturgy alongside commentary in the form of poetry by William Blake. It may be considered one of the few truly great 20th Century American choral works. His Piano Concerto No. 3 was composed for Alan Feinberg and the Riverside Symphony, who perform the piece here. It occupied two years of the composer's life, and contains a wealth of rich musical thought. The opening is suggested by the insistent background of taxi horns in New York City, according to the composer, and the high intensity of the work, and this performance, constantly remind the listener of the musical energy levels of our urban envious. This recording was a 2000 Grammy Nominee.

Customer Reviews:

Overflows with Energy, Very Emotional.......2004-03-01

The incredible burden of writing a requiem for your own 18 year old son must be overwhelming. Imbrie seems to tackle and invoke much of the Western cannon looking for the tones, solemn yet jarring, needed to express his deep grief and prayerful hope on the loss of his son.

Imbrie writes a formal, traditional work in many ways, but tearing at this work is a subtext that is informed by more modern music that is less tonal and melodic. The tension between the two drives the emotion and energy in this work. Deeply moving.

Knotty but accessible music.......2002-11-19

Andrew Imbrie, known to me before only for his opera based on Wallace Stegner's novel 'Angle of Repose', is represented on this disc by two large works. The Requiem, composed in response to the death of his son John in 1981, is a work written to a text that combines the ancient text of the Mass for the Dead with more modern poetry (Blake, Donne, George Herbert) that comments on death. It is a heartfelt work, written in Imbrie's knotty but melodious style, and feelingly performed by soprano Lisa Saffer and the New York Virtuoso Singers, a group dedicated to singing contemporary choral music. The Riverside Symphony (that's Riverside, New York City, not California) does a superb job of playing Imbrie's rhythmically complex music.

The third Piano Concerto, commissioned by the Riverside Symphony for pianist Alan Feinberg, that indefatigable champion of modern piano music [just yesterday I heard him play the newly 'assembled' "Emerson" Concerto of Charles Ives], grows out of chords reminiscent, Imbrie says, of the New York City taxi horns of his childhood; he goes on to point out that they are nothing like Gershwin's Paris taxi horns in 'An American in Paris.' The slow second movement is a nocturne that has a lighter, playful middle section. The last movement is a rondo that builds in intensity to a climax that calls back the taxi horns of the first movement. No one but an American could have written this concerto, and it is fitting that a New York pianist and a New York orchestra have made this superb recording.

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