Composer: Christopher Tyler Nickel
Orchestra: Northwest Sinfonia
Conductor: Clyde Mitchell
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avie
Release: 2021
Size: 513 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Nickel: Symphony No. 2
The vast, deep and emotional Symphony No. 2 by award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel a single movement, 53-minute-long work receives its world-premiere recording with Clyde Mitchell conducting the Seattle-based Northwest Sinfonia.
Vast, deep and emotional are apt descriptions of the single-movement, 53-minute-long Symphony No. 2 by Christopher Tyler Nickel. The award-winning Canadian composer elaborates, “One can think of this music as consisting of mirrors between ideas that equally disturb yet entice. Each side of the reflection is in itself conceivably valid, but when facing each other friction and dissonance are created. The exquisitely alluring and the grotesque exist simultaneously. Perhaps another way to understand the symphony is as a meditation on the state of cognitive dissonance.” The entrepreneurial Clyde Mitchell conducts the Seattle-based Northwest Sinfonia on this world-premiere recording.