Composer: George Crumb, Silvestre Revueltas, George Walker
Orchestra: Basque National Orchestra
Conductor: Robert Trevino
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ondine
Catalogue: ODE14452
Release: 2024
Size: 1.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Walker: Address for Orchestra
01. I. Poco adagio – Molto più mosso
02. II. Molto adagio
03. III. Dramatico
04. Crumb: A Haunted Landscape
Revueltas: La Coronela
05. I. Damitas de aquellos tiempos
06. II. Danza de los desheredados
07. III. Pesadilla de don Ferruccio
08. IV. Juicio final
This sequel to the Gramophone Award-nominated Americascapes album (ODE 1396-2) by the Basque National Orchestra and Robert Treviño is a thrilling and a deeply personal journey into the music of three American composers. All three composers had very unique aesthetic worlds and with two of the composers conductor Robert Treviño also had direct artistic collaboration. Where my first ‘Americascapes’ album looked at lesser-known major American works that had influenced European composers (rather than the other way around), for this follow-up, I went back to a more basic thought – “What is America?”. Since America is many things to millions of people, I realise that my question had to mean, “What is America to me? (…) Selecting the composers for this American Opus took well over a year. Yet I eventually refined the list to these three composers, with all of whom I feel a close kinship and all of whom are deeply meaningful to me. Two of them I even had a direct artistic relationship with. As a group, they also embody some of the diversity and the radically different aesthetics that thrive in the Americas.” (Robert Treviño)