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London Symphony Orchestra AMERICAN CLASSICS The London Symphony Orchestra, based at the Barbican in London and conducted by Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev and LSO President Sir Colin Davis, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading orchestras, but there is much more to its work than JACK GALLAGHER performing 140 concerts a year. More than a hundred years after it was formed, the LSO still attracts excellent players from all over the world. The LSO’s Orchestral Music commitment to music education through LSO Discovery, based at LSO St Luke’s, the UBS and LSO Diversions Overture • Berceuse • Sinfonietta Music Education centre, reaches over 60,000 people annually and provides a unique mix of events for music lovers of every age and background. The Orchestra is Symphony in One Movement: Threnody Photo: Gautier Deblonde resident at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, holds an annual residency at Lincoln Center, New York, and is international resident orchestra of La Salle Pleyel, Paris. LSO London Symphony Orchestra • JoAnn Falletta Live is currently the most successful label of its kind, making the orchestra available to global audiences.
JoAnn Falletta
Recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, winner of the Stokowski Competition, and the Toscanini, Ditson and Bruno Walter conducting awards, JoAnn Falletta has also received ten awards from the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) and serves on the U.S. National Council on the Arts. A champion of American music, she has presented over four hundred works by American composers including over eighty world premières. She currently serves as music director of both the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Virginia Symphony and has guest conducted over a hundred orchestras in North America and many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. Her Naxos recordings include the double GRAMMY® Award winning disc of works by John Corigliano (8.559331) and GRAMMY® nominated discs of works of Kenneth Fuchs (8.559224), Franz Schubert (8.572051), and Ottorino Respighi (8.557711).
Photo: Mark Dellas For more information, please visit www.joannfalletta.com
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Jack Gallagher (b. 1947) Symphony in One Movement: Threnody (Editions clarinets provide moments of repose and recollection, Orchestral Music Bim – www.editions-bim.com) was completed in 1991 but the fundamental character remains animated and the and revised in 2008. Commissioned, with support from work ends with a gesture of aggressive bravura. Scored Diversions Overture was written for the Wooster www.editions-bim.com), completed in February 2007, the Greater Wayne County Foundation, by the Women’s for two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboes, two Symphony Orchestra in Ohio and given its première by was extensively revised and expanded in 2008. The Committee for the 75th Anniversary of the Wooster clarinets (second doubling bass clarinet), two bassoons, that ensemble under the direction of Jeffrey Lindberg on Sinfonietta grew out of the earlier Two Pieces for String Symphony Orchestra in Ohio, Jeffrey Lindberg, Music four horns, three trumpets (first doubling piccolo 15th November 1986. It takes its name from my Orchestra, composed in 1989-90 for director Joanne Director, it is dedicated to my father and to the loving trumpet), three trombones, tuba, piano, harp, timpani, Diversions for symphonic band (1985), a three- Cohen and the Wooster (Ohio) String Ensemble, who memory of my mother, who died unexpectedly while three percussionists, and strings, the symphony lasts 21 movement work whose last movement provides the presented its première at The College of Wooster. To the work was in progress. Divided into two principal minutes and is published by Editions Bim, Vuarmarens, overture’s principal thematic material. Framed by a the original Two Pieces, three movements were added in sections (slow and fast), the symphony progresses from Switzerland. First performed on 16th November 1991 slow introduction and reflective coda, the overture 2006-07, resulting in a five-movement scheme of fast- expressions of loneliness and longing to resolve and by the Wooster Symphony Orchestra guest-conducted progresses from quiet beginnings in solo winds to a slow-fast-slow-fast. In this form, the work received its assertion. Beginning softly in divided violins, the by the composer, the symphony previously was faster, tutti passage for full orchestra. The contrasting first performance on 10th November 2007 by the principal pitch material continually aspires to escape, recorded by the Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra, middle section employs concertante solo strings, Wooster Symphony Orchestra guest-conducted by the via ever-broadening spirals of ambition, a prevailing Szymon Kawalla, conductor, on Vienna Modern leading to a chorale for brass. The reappearance of the composer. Substantive revision and expansion in 2008 sense of longing, only to be thwarted three times by Masters VMM 3028. main material culminates in a final statement for full profited greatly from a performance of the last three threatening episodes in faster tempi. Greater rhythmic orchestra, followed by a revisiting of the slower material movements by the Utah Arts Festival Orchestra, élan, edginess and even a dance-like quality characterize Jack Gallagher of the opening. Scored for two flutes (second doubling Andrew Rindfleisch, conductor. The first movement the faster second section. Cadenzas for harp and piccolo), two oboes (second doubling English Horn), Intrada, in modified sonata form, begins with a two clarinets (second doubling bass clarinet), two principal subject juxtaposing open-string pizzicato bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, multiple stops with rapid passages based on the Jack Gallagher timpani, two percussionists, harp and strings, the octatonic (alternating whole tones and semitones) scale. overture is dedicated with warm affection to my The more lyrical second subject is omitted entirely in Jack Gallagher is the Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music at The daughter Kelly and son Ryan. Previously it was the condensed recapitulation. The movement ends with College of Wooster in Ohio. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic, Robert Ian Winstin, a quiet coda, leading to the following movement. The composition from Cornell University and the bachelor’s degree cum laude conductor, on ERM Media ERM-6709. second movement Intermezzo, a plaintive arietta in 6/8 from Hofstra University. He studied composition with Elie Siegmeister, Berceuse is a brief, lyrical work for small orchestra. meter, is framed by an introduction and coda featuring a Robert Palmer and Burrill Phillips, participated in seminars with Karel Husa, Growing out of a lullaby for piano composed in 1976 for small group of solo players. Movement three, Malambo, Thea Musgrave and Ned Rorem, and in masterclasses with Aaron Copland, the daughter of friends, it employs a gently rocking 6/8 is titled for a lively Argentinian dance in compound George Crumb and William Bolcom. His compositions, including works for pattern suggestive of the genre. Later expanded and meter, occasionally found in stylized form in the music orchestra, band, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments, are included on orchestrated, the work is dedicated to my parents. of Alberto Ginastera. Structurally a scherzo with two twelve compact discs on the Musical Heritage Society, Capstone, Vienna Calling for winds in pairs, two horns, two trumpets, trios, it features a syncopated fanfare motive in open Modern Masters, Summit Records, Promuse, Altissimo! and ERM labels. timpani and strings, Berceuse was first performed by the fifths. The Pavane is a reflective, gentle movement Publishers include Editions Bim, Lawson-Gould, Kalmus/Ludwig Masters Hicksville (New York) Community Orchestra, Charles characterized by restraint throughout. “Pavane” refers Publications and Manduca Music Publications. Gallagher’s awards include Gouse, conductor, and is published by Kalmus/Ludwig to a stately court dance in duple meter and possessing recognition from the Ohio Arts Council, the Charles Ives Center for American Masters Publications. Previously recorded by the Polish symmetrical proportions. The concluding Rondo Music, Meet the Composer, the Yaddo Corporation, the Atlantic Center for Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Kraków concertante features a dance-like theme, initially in solo the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The College of Wooster
with Szymon Kawalla, conductor, on Vienna Modern instruments and utilizing changing meter. Following a Photo: Matt Dilyard/The College of Wooster, Ohio Henry Luce III Award for Distinguished Scholarship, and other organizations. Masters VMM 3030, it has been broadcast widely, pizzicato introduction, the rondo theme is announced As producer, his recording for TNC Records of Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques including fifty times by Radio Stephansdom and contrasted with a yearning second subject, in triple with pianist Angelin Chang, conductor John McLaughlin Williams and the Klassiksender, 107.3 FM, in Vienna. meter, in the cellos and basses. The Sinfonietta is Cleveland Chamber Symphony won a 2006 GRAMMY® Award in the classical category “Best Instrumental Soloist Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (Editions Bim – published by Editions Bim, Vuarmarens, Switzerland. Performance with Orchestra.” For more information about his music please visit www.JackGallagherMusic.com
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Jack Gallagher (b. 1947) Symphony in One Movement: Threnody (Editions clarinets provide moments of repose and recollection, Orchestral Music Bim – www.editions-bim.com) was completed in 1991 but the fundamental character remains animated and the and revised in 2008. Commissioned, with support from work ends with a gesture of aggressive bravura. Scored Diversions Overture was written for the Wooster www.editions-bim.com), completed in February 2007, the Greater Wayne County Foundation, by the Women’s for two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboes, two Symphony Orchestra in Ohio and given its première by was extensively revised and expanded in 2008. The Committee for the 75th Anniversary of the Wooster clarinets (second doubling bass clarinet), two bassoons, that ensemble under the direction of Jeffrey Lindberg on Sinfonietta grew out of the earlier Two Pieces for String Symphony Orchestra in Ohio, Jeffrey Lindberg, Music four horns, three trumpets (first doubling piccolo 15th November 1986. It takes its name from my Orchestra, composed in 1989-90 for director Joanne Director, it is dedicated to my father and to the loving trumpet), three trombones, tuba, piano, harp, timpani, Diversions for symphonic band (1985), a three- Cohen and the Wooster (Ohio) String Ensemble, who memory of my mother, who died unexpectedly while three percussionists, and strings, the symphony lasts 21 movement work whose last movement provides the presented its première at The College of Wooster. To the work was in progress. Divided into two principal minutes and is published by Editions Bim, Vuarmarens, overture’s principal thematic material. Framed by a the original Two Pieces, three movements were added in sections (slow and fast), the symphony progresses from Switzerland. First performed on 16th November 1991 slow introduction and reflective coda, the overture 2006-07, resulting in a five-movement scheme of fast- expressions of loneliness and longing to resolve and by the Wooster Symphony Orchestra guest-conducted progresses from quiet beginnings in solo winds to a slow-fast-slow-fast. In this form, the work received its assertion. Beginning softly in divided violins, the by the composer, the symphony previously was faster, tutti passage for full orchestra. The contrasting first performance on 10th November 2007 by the principal pitch material continually aspires to escape, recorded by the Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra, middle section employs concertante solo strings, Wooster Symphony Orchestra guest-conducted by the via ever-broadening spirals of ambition, a prevailing Szymon Kawalla, conductor, on Vienna Modern leading to a chorale for brass. The reappearance of the composer. Substantive revision and expansion in 2008 sense of longing, only to be thwarted three times by Masters VMM 3028. main material culminates in a final statement for full profited greatly from a performance of the last three threatening episodes in faster tempi. Greater rhythmic orchestra, followed by a revisiting of the slower material movements by the Utah Arts Festival Orchestra, élan, edginess and even a dance-like quality characterize Jack Gallagher of the opening. Scored for two flutes (second doubling Andrew Rindfleisch, conductor. The first movement the faster second section. Cadenzas for harp and piccolo), two oboes (second doubling English Horn), Intrada, in modified sonata form, begins with a two clarinets (second doubling bass clarinet), two principal subject juxtaposing open-string pizzicato bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, multiple stops with rapid passages based on the Jack Gallagher timpani, two percussionists, harp and strings, the octatonic (alternating whole tones and semitones) scale. overture is dedicated with warm affection to my The more lyrical second subject is omitted entirely in Jack Gallagher is the Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music at The daughter Kelly and son Ryan. Previously it was the condensed recapitulation. The movement ends with College of Wooster in Ohio. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic, Robert Ian Winstin, a quiet coda, leading to the following movement. The composition from Cornell University and the bachelor’s degree cum laude conductor, on ERM Media ERM-6709. second movement Intermezzo, a plaintive arietta in 6/8 from Hofstra University. He studied composition with Elie Siegmeister, Berceuse is a brief, lyrical work for small orchestra. meter, is framed by an introduction and coda featuring a Robert Palmer and Burrill Phillips, participated in seminars with Karel Husa, Growing out of a lullaby for piano composed in 1976 for small group of solo players. Movement three, Malambo, Thea Musgrave and Ned Rorem, and in masterclasses with Aaron Copland, the daughter of friends, it employs a gently rocking 6/8 is titled for a lively Argentinian dance in compound George Crumb and William Bolcom. His compositions, including works for pattern suggestive of the genre. Later expanded and meter, occasionally found in stylized form in the music orchestra, band, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments, are included on orchestrated, the work is dedicated to my parents. of Alberto Ginastera. Structurally a scherzo with two twelve compact discs on the Musical Heritage Society, Capstone, Vienna Calling for winds in pairs, two horns, two trumpets, trios, it features a syncopated fanfare motive in open Modern Masters, Summit Records, Promuse, Altissimo! and ERM labels. timpani and strings, Berceuse was first performed by the fifths. The Pavane is a reflective, gentle movement Publishers include Editions Bim, Lawson-Gould, Kalmus/Ludwig Masters Hicksville (New York) Community Orchestra, Charles characterized by restraint throughout. “Pavane” refers Publications and Manduca Music Publications. Gallagher’s awards include Gouse, conductor, and is published by Kalmus/Ludwig to a stately court dance in duple meter and possessing recognition from the Ohio Arts Council, the Charles Ives Center for American Masters Publications. Previously recorded by the Polish symmetrical proportions. The concluding Rondo Music, Meet the Composer, the Yaddo Corporation, the Atlantic Center for Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Kraków concertante features a dance-like theme, initially in solo the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The College of Wooster
with Szymon Kawalla, conductor, on Vienna Modern instruments and utilizing changing meter. Following a Photo: Matt Dilyard/The College of Wooster, Ohio Henry Luce III Award for Distinguished Scholarship, and other organizations. Masters VMM 3030, it has been broadcast widely, pizzicato introduction, the rondo theme is announced As producer, his recording for TNC Records of Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques including fifty times by Radio Stephansdom and contrasted with a yearning second subject, in triple with pianist Angelin Chang, conductor John McLaughlin Williams and the Klassiksender, 107.3 FM, in Vienna. meter, in the cellos and basses. The Sinfonietta is Cleveland Chamber Symphony won a 2006 GRAMMY® Award in the classical category “Best Instrumental Soloist Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (Editions Bim – published by Editions Bim, Vuarmarens, Switzerland. Performance with Orchestra.” For more information about his music please visit www.JackGallagherMusic.com
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London Symphony Orchestra AMERICAN CLASSICS The London Symphony Orchestra, based at the Barbican in London and conducted by Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev and LSO President Sir Colin Davis, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading orchestras, but there is much more to its work than JACK GALLAGHER performing 140 concerts a year. More than a hundred years after it was formed, the LSO still attracts excellent players from all over the world. The LSO’s Orchestral Music commitment to music education through LSO Discovery, based at LSO St Luke’s, the UBS and LSO Diversions Overture • Berceuse • Sinfonietta Music Education centre, reaches over 60,000 people annually and provides a unique mix of events for music lovers of every age and background. The Orchestra is Symphony in One Movement: Threnody Photo: Gautier Deblonde resident at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, holds an annual residency at Lincoln Center, New York, and is international resident orchestra of La Salle Pleyel, Paris. LSO London Symphony Orchestra • JoAnn Falletta Live is currently the most successful label of its kind, making the orchestra available to global audiences.
JoAnn Falletta
Recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, winner of the Stokowski Competition, and the Toscanini, Ditson and Bruno Walter conducting awards, JoAnn Falletta has also received ten awards from the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) and serves on the U.S. National Council on the Arts. A champion of American music, she has presented over four hundred works by American composers including over eighty world premières. She currently serves as music director of both the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Virginia Symphony and has guest conducted over a hundred orchestras in North America and many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. Her Naxos recordings include the double GRAMMY® Award winning disc of works by John Corigliano (8.559331) and GRAMMY® nominated discs of works of Kenneth Fuchs (8.559224), Franz Schubert (8.572051), and Ottorino Respighi (8.557711).
Photo: Mark Dellas For more information, please visit www.joannfalletta.com
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2010 Naxos Rights International Ltd. • Made in Canada 1 Diversions Overture (1986) 1 10:07 Jack Gallagher’s Symphony in One Movement: Threnody has been 2 2 Berceuse (1977) 5:19 acclaimed by in Tune magazine as GALLAGHER: 3 Sinfonietta (1990/2007)* 26:45 ‘enormously inventing’ and by 3 I. Intrada 5:18 Österreichische Musikzeitschrift as ‘a 4 II. Intermezzo 4:11 5 III. Malambo 6:27 one-movement symphony of great 6 IV. Pavane 4:59 colorfulness’. The warm, lyrical 7 V. Rondo concertante 5:50 Berceuse was heralded by The 8 Symphony in One Movement: Washington Post as ‘a treat’ and 4 ‘a lovely melodic and accessible Threnody (1991) 21:36 work’. The spirited Diversions Orchestral Music Orchestral Music Orchestral *WORLD PREMIE`RE RECORDING Overture and Sinfonietta for String 1, 2, 4 Orchestra, in five-movement arch London Symphony Orchestra form, complete this survey of 3 Members of the London Symphony Orchestra Gallagher’s music for orchestra JoAnn Falletta recorded by the London Symphony under the direction of JoAnn Falletta. Recorded at Abbey Road Studio One, London, UK, on 5th and 6th January, 2009 This recording was made possible GALLAGHER: Producer and editor: Michael Fine through the generosity of DDD Assistant producer: Tamra Saylor Fine Ethel L. and John J. Gallagher; and Engineer: Wolf-Dieter Karwatky Muriel R. and Robert G. Schaffeld (BKL Recording Group)
Publishers: Composer’s manuscript (track 1); www.naxos.com 8.559652 8.559652 Kalmus / Ludwig Masters (track 2); Editions Bim (www.editions-bim.com) (tracks 3-8) Booklet notes: Jack Gallagher Cover image by Centauria (iStockphoto.com) NAXOS