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559288 Bk Wuorinen US 559345 bk Wuorinen US 11/12/07 2:43 PM Page 12 Also available in this series: AMERICAN CLASSICS Charles WUORINEN The Dante Trilogy (Chamber version) The Mission of Virgil The Great Procession The River of Light 8.559321 The Group for Contemporary Music 8.559345 12 559345 bk Wuorinen US 11/12/07 2:43 PM Page 2 Charles WUORINEN Also available in this series: (b. 1938) The Dante Trilogy The Mission of Virgil (chamber version) (1993) 27:07 1 Prelude 1:16 2 I. Flight from the Three Beasts 2:20 3 II. The Mission of Virgil 5:05 4 III. Limbo [They enter Limbo – Poets – Warriors – Philosophers – Leaving Limbo segue to...] 3:56 5 IV. Paolo and Francesca [Arrival – The Story – Departure] 5:02 6 V. Monsters of the Prime [Geryon – Nimrod – Antaeus] 3:57 7 VI. Satan 1:57 8 VII. Journey through the Center 3:34 The Great Procession (chamber version) (1995) 26:00 9 I. The Seven Lights 3:21 0 Refrain 0:28 ! II. The Elders 2:07 @ III. The Chariot 4:13 # Refrain 0:28 $ IV. The Griffin 5:50 % Refrain 0:27 8.559264 ^ V. The Seven Virtues 2:51 & VI. The Departure 2:22 * Refrain 0:28 ( VII. The Unveiling 3:26 ) The River of Light (chamber version) (1996) 19:03 Tracks 1-8 recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, on 30th March, 1996 Producer and engineer: Judith Sherman • Assistant engineer: Jeanne Velonis Tracks 9-20 recorded live at the Peter Lewis Auditorium, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on 12th and 13th February, 1999 • Producer and engineer: Jeanne Velonis Published by C.F. Peters Corporation (New York, London, Frankfurt) / BMI 8.559288 Remastered by Scott Hull, New York, on 3rd May, 2007. 8.559345 2 11 8.559345 559345 bk Wuorinen US 11/12/07 2:43 PM Page 10 Benjamin Ramirez (percussion) Charles Wuorinen (b. 1938) The Dante Trilogy Benjamin Ramirez, the Acting Principal Timpanist of the National Symphony Orchestra for the 2007-2008 season, was from 1998 Principal Timpanist of the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with Charles Wuorinen wrote The Dante Trilogy between attempt must fail to respect the scope of the poet’s numerous orchestras as a guest, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as the symphonies of San 1993 and 1996 for Peter Martins and the New York City achievement. In describing The Mission of Virgil, Francisco, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis. Benjamin Ramirez currently teaches at the University of Ballet, for whom he had previously written his cello Wuorinen makes a point of letting us know that its Maryland. He has also taught at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and Capital University. He holds concerto Five and the Mozart-inspired Delight of the episodes are not meant to be taken as illustrating the degrees from the Juilliard School, Indiana University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Muses. The three Dante ballets each correspond to one action or even the personalities or archetypes we of the books of the Commedia: The Mission of Virgil to encounter in the Inferno: “Rather, certain isolated Rachel Rudich (flute and piccolo) Inferno, The Great Procession to Purgatorio, and The incidents, relationships, images, remarks, names are River of Light to Paradiso. For practicality’s sake, each made the springboard for a musical fabric which also Rachel Rudich has appeared with the New Music Consort, the Group for Contemporary Music, Speculum Musicae, ballet exists in both chamber and orchestral versions. reflects certain basic aspects of the poem’s word- the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, and the Fromm Players. She has performed at the June in Buffalo The chamber version of The Mission of Virgil is scored structure: its eleven-syllable lines, its three-line stanzas, Festival, the Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College, the Lake Placid Institute, the for two pianos, The Great Procession for six players its rhyme scheme, its obsession with the number seven, Guggenheim Works and Process Series, the Ojai Festival, the Dartington International School in England, and the (flute/piccolo, violin, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, and so forth.” And of The River of Light: “…the music Fromm Contemporary Music Series at Harvard University. Her awards include the Kreauter Musical Foundation percussion, and piano), and The River of Light for is in no sense narrative, indeed hardly even referential at Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chamber Music, the Artists International Award, appointment to the roster thirteen players (flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet/bass all.” of Affiliate Artists, and recording grants from the NEA, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and the Aaron Copland Fund for clarinet, three percussion, harp, piano, celesta, violin, Although obscurity is not the point either—any Music. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts. viola, cello, contrabass). The chamber version of The more so than in Dante, in spite of the density of the Great Procession was written for the New York New poem—only some of the structural details are Fred Sherry (cello) Music Ensemble on a commission from the Christian immediately apparent, mostly on a grosser scale, but Humann Foundation; the New York City Ballet these can be rather satisfying. Wuorinen picks up on In the vast scope of his recording career, Fred Sherry has been a soloist and “sideman” on hundreds of commercial commissioned the orchestral version. Dante’s frequent use of textual and narrative echoes, and esoteric recordings. Major contributions include recordings of cello concertos by Schoenberg, Wuorinen, In his long composing life, Wuorinen has drawn on that is, specular or mirroring moments. Within the Carter, Davidovsky and Mackey. Recently he has been active with John Zorn on the Tzadik label. He has been an an extremely wide range of intellectual and musical Commedia these round off and contain individual Artist Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1984 and was the Artistic Director from 1988 inspirations, including many from science and literature. cantos, groups of cantos or ideas (for example, the nine to 1992. He is a member of the cello faculty of the Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan The Dante Trilogy is among his most ambitious, its circles of Hell dividing into groups of three), and School of Music. source one of the great works of the Western intellectual connect even between books to tie together the entire canon. Almost seven hundred years after its poem (the description of Satan at the end of Inferno Stephen Taylor (oboe) composition, Dante’s Commedia remains one of the being mirrored in that of the Griffin near the end of supreme poetic expressions of Christian culture, mixed Purgatorio). Oboist Stephen Taylor holds the Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III solo oboe chair with the Chamber Music Society of liberally with Classical myth, literature, and history. The Mission of Virgil is a ballet in seven parts with a Lincoln Center. He is also solo oboe with the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. This great synthesis in three parts has fired the Prelude, and the third, fourth, and fifth episodes each Luke’s Chamber Ensemble (where he is co-director of chamber music), the American Composers Orchestra, the imaginations of innumerable of the poet’s successors in have three inner divisions. On the largest scale we can New England Bach Festival Orchestra, the renowned contemporary music group Speculum Musicae, and plays as all the arts, inspired in part by what scholar and hear a definite relationship between the Prelude and the co-principal oboe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Trained at the Juilliard School with teachers Lois Wann translator Allen Mandelbaum, commenting on the final episode (track 8), Journey through the Center: that and Robert Bloom, he is a member of its faculty as well as the Yale School of Music, SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Paradiso, calls “the stupendous symbiosis between is, travel toward, and then away from, Hell. Similar Purchase, and the Manhattan School of Music. He plays on a rare Caldwell model Loree oboe. philosophical stringency and poetic technique that is expressions of form linked to the idea of motion occur one of the [poem’s] chief triumphs.” on a smaller scale as well. In the fourth episode (track Charles Wuorinen’s music relates to detail and 5), Paolo and Francesca, short passages in swirling atmosphere, rather than attempting to mirror the whole triplets, marked in the score “Arrival” and “Departure” of Dante’s narrative; the composer knows that any such (and themselves made up of a doubled phrase) flank the 8.559345 10 3 8.559345 559345 bk Wuorinen US 11/12/07 2:43 PM Page 4 bulk of the movement (“Story”), which corresponds to building of the Tower of Babel. He and Antaeus (3:17), Curtis Macomber (violin) Francesca’s narrative. The first episode (track 2), The two of the giants guarding the lowest circle of Hell, are Flight from the Three Beasts, is all motion. This is encountered in Canto XXXI. The Antaeus section Curtis Macomber is one of the most versatile soloists/chamber musicians before the public today, equally at home in Dante’s Canto I, in which the Traveler, lost in a dark features many single-pitch tremolos. The sixth episode repertoire from Bach to Babbitt. As a member of the New World String Quartet from 1982-93, he performed in wood, attempts to climb a sunlit hill and is hindered by a (track 7) of The Mission of Virgil is devoted solely to virtually all the important concert series in the United States, as well as touring abroad.
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