Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Adler: One Lives but Once: A 90th Birthday Celebration (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Adler: One Lives but Once: A 90th Birthday Celebration (2018)
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March 4th 2018 marks the 90th birthday of one of the twenty-first century’s most influential and prolific composers: Samuel Adler. This three-disc boxed set provides a cohesive overview of his output and includes many premiere recordings. A pupil of both Paul Hindemith and Aaron Copland, Adler is a phenomenal symphonic writer (who, quite literally, wrote the book on orchestration) whose style merges twenty-first century ebullience with an almost classical economy and balance. The first two discs feature the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt under conductor Emily Freeman Brown performing the First and Second Symphonies, a dance suite for orchestra, plus three concertos: the Concerto for violin and orchestra, featuring Siwoo Kim, the award-winning violinist who originally premiered the work; the Concerto for woodwind quintet and orchestra; and the first Piano Concerto, featuring the prize-winning young pianist Michael Brown. The third disc features the highly talented young players from the Eastman School of Music alongside guitarist and fellow Eastman professor Nicholas Goluses. This is especially fitting since Adler taught at Eastman for nearly thirty years and these students represent the continuation of his prodigious legacy.

Tracklist:
1. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Symphony No. 1: I. Gently Moving (08:01)
2. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Symphony No. 1: II. Very Slowly (07:25)
3. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Symphony No. 1: III. Vigorous and Very Rhythmic (05:55)
4. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1: I. Slowly and Very Free – Very Fast (09:47)
5. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1: II. Very Slowly (08:42)
6. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1: III. Hard Driving (09:36)
7. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Man Lebt Nur Einmal ‘One Lives but Once’: I. Rumble (02:43)
8. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Man Lebt Nur Einmal ‘One Lives but Once’: II. Schleier-Walzer ‘Veiled Waltz’ (03:22)
9. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Man Lebt Nur Einmal ‘One Lives but Once’: III. Erratische Rumba ‘Erratic Rumba’ (05:07)
10. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Man Lebt Nur Einmal ‘One Lives but Once’: IV. Pavane (06:44)
11. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Man Lebt Nur Einmal ‘One Lives but Once’: V. Tarantella (05:10)
12. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Symphony No. 2: I. Quite Slowly – Fast (08:54)
13. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Symphony No. 2: II. Slowly (07:07)
14. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Symphony No. 2: III. Fast and Triumphant (05:41)
15. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: I. Vigorous (09:01)
16. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: II. Slowly and Expressively (05:41)
17. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concert for Violin & Orchestra: III. Cadenza Fast and With a Happy Spirit (07:17)
18. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Orchestra ‘Shir HaMa’alot’: I. Fast, Rhythmic, and Very Energetic (07:15)
19. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Orchestra Shir HaMa’alot II. Slowly and Very Expressively – Suddenly Faster – Slowly Again (08:36)
20. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Orchestra ‘Shir HaMa’alot’: III. Fast and Jubilant (07:11)
21. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra: I. Very Fast and Rhythmic (07:15)
22. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra: II. Slowly and Expressively – Suddenly Faster – Slowly Tempo I Again (09:43)
23. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra: III. Fast and With Good Spirit (06:27)
24. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light: I. Delicate and Quite Fast (04:04)
25. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light: II. Slowly and Freely Moving (03:09)
26. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light: III. Fast and Rhythmic (03:29)
27. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Ports of Call ‘A Mediterranean Suite’: I. Marseille: With a Happy Spirit (02:38)
28. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Ports of Call ‘A Mediterranean Suite’: II. Alexandria: Slowly and Expressively (04:34)
29. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Ports of Call ‘A Mediterranean Suite’: III. Salonika: With Wild Abandon (01:39)
30. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Ports of Call ‘A Mediterranean Suite’: IV. Haifa: With a Slow Lilt (03:23)
31. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Ports of Call ‘A Mediterranean Suite’: V. Valencia: Fast and Exuberant (03:05)
32. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Five Choral Scherzi: I. V. B. Nimble, V. B. Quick (01:58)
33. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Five Choral Scherzi: II. Sucking Cider Through a Straw (01:06)
34. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Five Choral Scherzi: III. No! (03:24)
35. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Five Choral Scherzi: IV. The Choice (02:39)
36. Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt – Five Choral Scherzi: V. Tarantella (01:46)

Personnel:
Michael Brown (piano)
Siwoo Kim (violin)
Nicholas Goluses (guitar)

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
Eastman Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra
Eastman Chorale
Emily Freeman Brown
Neil Varon
William Weinert

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