NYCITY SLICKERS - CD COTTON COMET SKY

Popis - COTTON COMET SKY:
Three new artists and three members of the ABLAZE composer family join up in a diverse new disc of new instrumental music from solo instruments to orchestral and electronics-assisted music. Once again ABLAZE supports new composers and their individual voices in this brilliant and diverse disc. Asha Srinivasan (India/USA)— joins ABLAZE once again with her dramatic and expressive award winning work, Dviraag. Scored only for flute and cello this work takes on a dramatic and insistent profile coupled with sections of slow melodic beauty. Arthur Hernández (USA)— joins the ABLAZE family with his Shepherd’s Psalm for solo guitar. Brilliantly exploiting the potential and idiosyncrasies of this beautiful instrument, Hernández creates an expansive and lyrical work evocative of the New England landscape that is his home. Douglas Knehans (Australia/USA)—contributes once again to the ABLAZE catalogue with his early and virtuosic multi-movement Sonata for Solo Clarinet. Written in Australia in 1980, this is one of Knehans’ earliest works given a passionate and explosive reading here by clarinet virtuoso Jonathan Gunn. Stephen Yip (China/USA)— continues his work on ABLAZE with this his third contribution to the ABLAZE catalogue, Hui for solo flute. Inward, subtle and oblique, this delicate and yearning work is riveting in its use of new techniques for the flute employed in a uniquely beautiful and spiritual work. Miguel Trillo-Figueroa (Sweden/Spain)— joins ABLAZE for the first time with his powerful orchestral work Spectra. Filled with color, rhythmic vitality, organic post-Stravinskian coloration and rhythmic virtuosity, Spectra is an impressive debut orchestral work from this up and coming Spanish composer. Scott Barton (USA) — joins ABLAZE for the first time with his use of a human performer and robotic instruments in his groovy Rise of a City. The piece explores areas of musical expression that are uniquely human, uniquely mechanical, and the spaces in between in a powerful, fun and beautiful take on 21st century technologies and artistic practice.