NOTE: THIS CD IS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FROM iTUNES AND SONY CONNECT! OTHER SITES COMING ONLINE SOON!
TO ORDER CD ON iTUNES, COPY AND PASTE THIS LINK, AND GO TO: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.w [+]NOTE: THIS CD IS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FROM iTUNES AND SONY CONNECT! OTHER SITES COMING ONLINE SOON!
TO ORDER CD ON iTUNES, COPY AND PASTE THIS LINK, AND GO TO: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=165151593
TO ORDER CD ON SONY CONNECT, COPY AND PASTE THIS LINK, AND GO TO: http://musicstore.connect.com/album/500/000/000/000/020/927/886/500000000000020927886.html
Here are notes by the composer for the two works on this CD, followed by biographical information:
Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano by Michael Kurek
Performed in concert by Carolyn Huebl, violin; Felix Wang, cello; and Melissa Rose, piano.
I. Pas de deux
II. Le piquenique (“Picnic”)
III. Élégie
IV. Plein de désir (“Longing”)
My first piano trio is my most extensive chamber work to date, lasting around forty minutes. The outer two movements are longer and tend toward the tragic and serious, while the inner two are lighter and more tender, respectively. People familiar with my work know that in recent years I have been exploring what turns out to be the difficult craft of traditional tonal composition. I say “difficult” partly because, for most people, new tonal music tends to invite comparisons more easily and reveal its flaws more transparently than less-familiar modernist and avant-garde styles, even though the latter can be equally derivative or flawed without so many people recognizing it. However, a work’s stylistic influences, or “who it sounds like,” seem to me far less important in the end than simply whether it is a compelling piece of music to hear. I would like to think that a few neo-traditional voices like mine can contribute some musical diversity within this new century’s contemporary music circles. However, I have gone in this direction primarily because it is where my artistic inclinations have led me, and it is what I enjoy writing, being a melodist at heart. Of course it is not my intention merely to present melodies but rather to engage the listener in a dramatic argument throughout a long form, cultivating the contrapuntal and harmonic “character development” of those melodies toward a dramatic climax. This sometimes entails quite a workout for what might otherwise be s
|
 |
Genre/Tags: 
Ringtones
Full Tracks
