Composer: Samuel Adler, Gustav Theodore Holst, Charles Ives
Performer: Sooyun Kim, Michelle Farah, Yoonah Kim, Taylor Smith, Charles Neidich, New York Classical Players
Conductor: Dongmin Kim
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0642
Release: 2022
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Adler: Arcos Concerto
01. I. Slowly and Very Lyrically
02. II. Fast and Fluid
03. III. Slow and Quiet
04. IV. Fast and Vigorous
05. Adler: Elegy for String Orchestra
06. Adler: Beyond the Pale
07. Adler: Come Let’s Dance
08. Adler: Gedenkfeier
09. Adler: In the Spirit of Bach
10. Ives: Variations on ‘America’
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 (Arr. S. Adler for String Orchestra)
11. IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
The music of Samuel Adler – born in Mannheim in 1928 but long since one of the leading figures of American music – has its roots in the Neo-Classical clarity of composers like Copland and Hindemith, who were among his teachers. The works on this album arose from a range of impulses: a Neo-Baroque concerto grosso and a tribute to Bach encase a series of tributes to lost individuals and traditions; and two jeux d’esprit – Ives’ tongue-in-cheek Variations on America and Holst’s ‘Jupiter’ from The Planets – both bring jollity in Adler’s idiomatic arrangements for string orchestra.