Composer: Joel Feigin
Performer: Yael Weiss, John Savournin
Orchestra: Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
Conductor: Kirk Trevor, Misha Rachlevsky
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0612
Release: 2021
Size: 402 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Aviv
01. I. Allegro vivace
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegro scherzando
Surging Seas
04. I. Allegro maestoso
05. II. Largo
06. III. Allegro
2 Songs from “Twelfth Night”
07. No. 1, O Mistress Mine
08. No. 2, Come Away, Come Away, Death
Mosaic in Two Panels (Version for String Orchestra)
09. I. Adagio – Allegro grazioso e scherzando – Adagio
10. II. Adagio – Allegro vivace
It might seem that modern classical music rarely expresses happiness – but Aviv, a piano concerto by Joel Feigin (born in New York in 1951), suggests the warmth and optimism of the coming of spring. The angular, even anguished, essay for strings Surging Seas, by contrast, was inspired by the devastation wrought by the tsunamis of 2004 and 2011. The Two Songs from Twelfth Night have their origins in the tradition of American orchestral song established by Samuel Barber. And in the diptych Mosaic, also for strings, a first ‘panel’ of heartfelt lyricism is succeeded by an outburst of buoyant energy.