Composer: Russell Platt, Joan Tower, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Judith Weir
Performer: Peter Kolkay, Calidore String Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Bridge
Catalogue: BRIDGE9587
Release: 2023
Size: 1.01 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Tower: Red Maple
Platt: Quintet for Bassoon and Strings
02. I. Slow
03. II. Still Slow–Cadenza—Fast
Turnage: Massarosa
04. I. Very tender and expressive
05. II. Intermezzo
06. III. Very slow and serene
07. Weir: Wake Your Wild Voice
Peter Kolkay’s new recording of music for bassoon and strings, Red Maple, takes its title from a work that Joan Tower wrote for Kolkay in 2013. Tower’s piece is joined by fellow American composer Russell Platt’s Quintet, completed in 1997. Two UK composers round out the program, with English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Massarosa (2018) (another Kolkay dedication) and the Scottish composer Judith Weir’s Wake Your Wild Voice (2008), a duo for bassoon and cello. Peter Kolkay holds a distinguished place in the American music scene as the only bassoonist to have won the coveted Avery Fisher Career Award, and as an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is joined on the recording by the distinguished Calidore String Quartet, currently quartet in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.