Kernis / Newton Howard: Violin Concertos (with Tovey: Stream of Limelight)
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AARON KERNIS / JAMES NEWTON HOWARD
Kernis / Newton Howard: Violin Concertos (with Tovey: Stream of Limelight)
James Ehnes (violin) / Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot / Detroit Symphony, Cristian Macelaru / Andrew Armstrong (piano)
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Release Date: Monday 1 October 2018
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Three works written for James Ehnes, and receiving their premiere recordings. James Newton Howard's music will be familiar to movie fans the world over. His 120 film scores include 'The Prince of Tides', 'Michael Clayton', 'My Best Friend's Wedding', 'The Village', 'Defiance' and 'The Hunger Games' (the recording was produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett) and he is one of the most respected composers currently working in film. Commissioned to write a concerto for James Ehnes and the Pacific Symphony, Howard admitted to feeling 'thrilled, excited, expectant and ultimately terrified'.
Pulitzer Prize (String Quartet No.2) winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis first composed for Ehnes in 2007 'Two movements (with Bells) and a few years later the violin concerto followed.
Bramwell Tovey and James Ehnes musical relationship goes back to 1990, and they have performed together countless times. Stream of Limelight gives James's incredible technique ample opportunity to dazzle, and is a superb finale to this fascinating album of new compositions.
Grammy Winner 2019 - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Grammy Winner 2019 - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
"There's some entertaining, dazzling, smile-inducing, toe-tapping music here but I can't give you a cast-iron promise that there's much more…Ehnes's characteristic sweetness and tenderness married to unerring strength and direct musicianship are on display in all three pieces." Gramophone
"The concerto by Aaron Jay Kernis is heard in an incredibly powerful live performance, the taxing violin part superbly executed. The Chaconne begins with an unashamedly romantic gesture, going on to embrace a wide range of emotions including some real Innigkeit. Both performance and recording are beyond criticism. [Newton Howard] His concerto is lyrical; there is almost an English twinge to the first movement. The Andante semplice is the work's emotional heart (the film origins clear) while the finale confirms Ehnes' virtuosity. Finally, Bramwell Tovey's brief Stream of Limelight, the only non-orchestral piece, an engaging soliloquy in the spotlight. Top-rank recording throughout." Classical Music
"This disc showcases three commissions aimed squarely at the Canadian virtuoso's dazzling skillset. At the centre is a concerto by James Newton Howard…The work is lyrical, wildly cavorting and - in the Andante semplice second movement - sweetly poignant. Aaron Jay Kernis's preceding concerto requires Ehnes to delve even deeper into his virtuoso's tool kit. With a highly charged first movement, Kernis sets out his stall with intense drama, before a fabulous film noir-ish second movement" BBC Music Christmas Edition - Concerto Choice
Tracks:
Kernis: Concerto for Violin
Howard, J N: Violin Concerto
Tovey, B: Stream of Limelight
