20th
Century: the American Scene -
Tai Murray, violin
/
Ashley Wass,
piano
CD audio -
EAS 29253 - Total Time: 79' 01'' - Worldwide Release: 15 November
2013
COPLAND, AARON
(1900-1990)
Sonata for Violin & Piano (1943)
1.
I. Andante Semplice
2.
II. Lento
3.
III. Allegretto giusto
CARTER, ELLIOTT
(1908-2012)
Four Lauds
for Solo Violin
4.
Statement - Remembering
5. Aaron
(1999)
6.
Riconoscenza per Goffredo
Petrassi(1984)
7.
Rhapsodic Musings (2000)
8. Fantasy
– Remembering Roger
(1999)
CAGE, JOHN
(1912-1992)
9-14.
Six Melodies for Violin & Piano (1950)
CORIGLIANO, JOHN (1938
-)
Sonata for
Violin & Piano (1963)
9.
I.Allegro
10.
II.Andantino
11.
III.Lento
12.
IV.Allegro
The twentieth century will go
down in history as the century that radically changed our society:
two devastating world wars and an economic system that was to take
hold, at staggering speed, of the philosophy, aesthetics, and moral
values on which humanity had hitherto been founded. As a result,
the arts in general and the musical world in particular were so
powerfully affected that, today, we can find no parallel in past
centuries. Thus the twentieth century will be remembered as the
century of diversity, when the confluence of so many different
schools of thought gave birth to the most varied techniques and
compositional styles, unhesitatingly burying all vestiges of
post-Romanticism. Inevitably, the American musical landscape,
consistently inheriting European trends, was imbued with this
‘experimental’ feel, leading to a diverse musical scene that
breathes the air of Nadia Boulanger’s Paris with Aaron Copland and
Elliott Carter, ‘moves away’ from sound with John Cage, and employs
the full range of stylistic possibilities with John Corigliano; an
America that adapts the old language to derive completely new and
fresh music from elements inherited from the past. In a country
where ‘classical’ music is not a native art, it became imperative
to create music with an identity of its own that would reflect the
thoughts and feelings of a people and to develop a school of
American composers.
We would
like to express our gratitude to RBB Radio, and to the whole team
there, for the dedication that they have shown to Tay and Ashely in
the coproduction with eaSonus of this project.