Composer: Samuel Adler
Performer: Michael Brown, Michelle Ross, Cassatt String Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0624
Release: 2021
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Fantasy for Piano Solo
Violin Sonata No. 2
02. I. Allegro moderato
03. II. Lento espressivo
04. III. Allegro molto ma non troppo
05. In Memory of Milton
Violin Sonata No. 3
06. Fast & Intense – Very Slowly – Suddenly Fast – Very Lively – Very Slowly – Like a Waltz, Gracefully – Fast & Intense
07. Festschrift for Piano Solo
08. Thy Song Expands My Spirit
Violin Sonata No. 4
09. I. Quite Fast
10. II. Quiet & Dream-Like
11. III. Fast & Very Rhythmic
String Quartet No. 10
12. Very Slowly – Fast & Very Agitated – Very Slowly – Fast & with Abandon
The works of Samuel Adler – born in Mannheim in 1928 but long since one of the leading figures of American music – are both modern and approachable: they blend an edgy angularity with long flights of lyrical melody, and are often informed with both a buoyant charge of energy and an impish sense of humour. This conspectus of his chamber and instrumental music covers almost sixty years of his activity as a composer and thus presents a kind of portrait in sound.