Icons: Glass, Adams & Corigliano
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Label: Orange Mountain Music
Cat No: OMM0162
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th January 2023
Contents
Artists
Robert McDuffie (violin)Elizabeth Pridgen (piano)
Works
Road MoviesViolin Sonata
Violin Sonata
Artists
Robert McDuffie (violin)Elizabeth Pridgen (piano)
About
Receiving accolades for his landmark recording of Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto no.1 in 1999, a decade later McDuffie was the commissioner of Glass’s Violin Concerto no.2 “The American Four Seasons” which became one of the most successful recordings of its time thanks to McDuffie’s extended international touring of the piece including over 100 live performances of the concerto all over the world. On ICONS, the artists extend their expertise in the music of Philip Glass with his Violin Sonata from 2008, infusing the work with an energy and charm for which both are known as the foremost interpreters in the world.
John Adams, hailed by the New York Times in September 2022 as “arguably our greatest living composer” wrote his seminal Road Movies for violin and piano in 1995 and it quickly became a staple of the repertoire. Evoking the vast expanse of the American continent and the archetypal “American Road Trip,” the piece captures the landscape passes by your car windows. McDuffie and Pridgen’s performance embodies the sleek rhythmic precision required to appreciate that imaginary journey in the mind’s eye.
Perhaps his most famous piece, John Corigliano’s Violin Sonata was written when the composer was in his mid-20s back in the 1960s when his father, the famous violinist John Corigliano Sr, was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Despite writing the sonata for his father, it was years before Sr would take the piece on – and only then because the sonata organically became an unmitigated success. Since then, it has never stopped being admired as one of the best pieces ever written for the medium of violin and piano.
Joy and expertise are in abundance in these recordings – the end result is a contextualising of three works by these great masters – each tremendously different composers from one another, united in the artistry of Robert McDuffie and Elizabeth Pridgen.
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