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AARON JAY KERNIS DREAMSONGS THREE CONCERTOS THREE CONCERTOS Dreamsongs (2013) Movement and Is Often Featured in It

AARON JAY KERNIS DREAMSONGS THREE CONCERTOS THREE CONCERTOS Dreamsongs (2013) Movement and Is Often Featured in It

AARON JAY KERNIS DREAMSONGS THREE THREE CONCERTOS Dreamsongs (2013) movement and is often featured in it. I don’t know of many pieces that concentrate on Dreamsongs (2013) 1. Floating Dreamsongs pizzicato playing as much as this movement, 1 I. Floating Dreamsongs [13.01] 2. Kora Song and the playing style was developed in close 2 II. Kora Song [13.04] Joshua Roman cello collaboration with the soloist. The music While Dreamsongs is a for cello and frequently changes direction and features a Concerto (2013-14) chamber orchestra, it doesn’t take on the number of cello cadenzas of smaller and larger 3 I. Braid [5.47] forms of older concerti. Rather than the almost size, sometimes with the West African djembe 4 II. Romance [7.04] 5 III. A Song My Mother Taught Me [19.47] ubiquitous three movement layout– Fast-Slow- drum. Overall it has a gentle exuberance and is viola Fast - it has only two movements, both of lighter in tone and more energetic than in the which mix slow and fast with dramatic and opening movement. Concerto with Echoes (2009) lyrical sections. The first,Floating Dreamsongs 6 I. Lontano; Tocatta: Molto allegro [3.39] 7 II. Slowly [7.57] is mostly slow and airy, and is built as a group Dreamsongs is written for the generous and 8 III. Aria – dolente, grazioso [4.48] of continuously developing variations on the virtuosic playing of cellist Joshua Roman, who intimate music from its opening and 1st I’ve known for a number of years, and has been 9 Tumbalalaika Traditional Yiddish, arr. Aaron Jay Kernis [0.56] variation with strings, harp and vibraphone. my neighbor in until recently. Paul Neubauer viola, Aaron Jay Kernis The consonant harmonies become spooked It is dedicated to him. It was co-commissioned 0 Fughetta, Op. 32 No. 4 Robert Schumann [1.49] and furtive, building into tremulous marimba for him by the San Francisco Chamber Aaron Jay Kernis piano and vibraphone rolls with large orchestra Orchestra, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra chords, and only much later returns to a mostly of Columbus, Ohio, and the Bellingham Festival Total timings: [77.53] peaceful character. in Washington State.

ROYAL NORTHERN SINFONIA Much of the 2nd movement, Kora Song, is PAUL NEUBAUER VIOLA JOSHUA ROMAN CELLO inspired by music of the African kora, a plucked Aaron Jay Kernis piano gourd almost similar in sound to the harp and REBECCA MILLER CONDUCTOR pizzicato cello combination that opens the www.signumrecords.com - 3 - (2013-2014) harshness. Yet throughout there are linked was later surprised to hear it sung in many made wildly improvisatory, and at times, very I. Braid musical ideas in each movement which give ways – as a romantic wedding song, wildly harsh and bitter. Only very late in the movement II. Romance the entire work continuity. gyrating dance tune, and even in an ironic, is the simple, original tune heard, above III. A Song My Mother Taught Me comedic rendition. After hearing Paul’s pulsating strummed chords. The form could The opening movement, Braid, is a series of Schumann CD, a melody from his Op. 34 set be construed to be variations in search of their This new concerto for Viola is inspired essentially elaborations and embellishments of a sequence of short piano pieces lodged in my ear and melody. A short, intense solo viola cadenza is by its extraordinary soloist whose playing of harmonies and melodies. Throughout its would not leave it, so its melody and followed by a dense and frenzied climax with I’ve known over many years. Paul Neubauer compact length it shifts from clear three- distinctive rhythm became the frame of the the two clarinets leading the way. A decisively and I first worked together in 1993 when note chords at the opening and closing to a movement, with Tumbalalaika as its essential bleak battle between bass drum and viola American Public Radio commissioned my Still thickening gauze of colors that weave around the musical material. Both melodies have a strong pounds the opening Schumann-esque rhythms Movement with Hymn for piano quartet which viola line and lead, at its peak, to a chaotic frenzy. rhythmic kinship with the other. Included as into silence. To close, the ghostly irony of a he premiered on air and toured with 3 other bonus tracks (9,10) are recordings of the essential brief quote from Mahler, a final blanket of remarkable musicians. In some ways this The second movement, Romance is a lyrical, musical material used in the 3rd movement – my opposing chords that reference the Schumann new concerto follows up on the tone of that romantic intermezzo, which grows out of arrangement of Tumbalalaika for viola and piano, one last time, and a pensive coda completes piece. More recently I was extremely moved by breathing, fluid gestures and harmonies that and the Schumann Fughetta, from Piano Pieces the work. Paul’s recording (with pianist Anne-Marie link to the Brahms/early Schoenberg tradition. The Op. 32 No. 4. McDermott) of viola music of Robert Schumann, title came from discovering a number of lovely While I decided not to preface each of the and this lead me to re-explore the music of piano pieces by Clara Schumann titled Romanze, The third movement begins with plaintive, virtuosic variations in the score with words from Robert and Clara Schumann in depth once clearly written in mind of her husband. lines in the clarinet and bass clarinet, then Tumbalaliaka, here are the lyrics that inspired again. I have always been drawn to the soulful the Schumann melody is heard in its simplest the movement. character of the viola, and have been excited The final movement,A Song My Mother Taught form. It returns repeatedly at important to write this work from the moment Paul Me, is the longest and darkest in the concerto, moments throughout, and is increasingly Viola Concerto was written in 2013- 2014 and requested it. lasting about 20 minutes. Knowing of the Paul deconstructed and harmonically decayed. The generously commissioned for Paul Neubauer Neubauer’s interest in folk music, as soon use of the Yiddish tune takes the opposite by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with the This concerto shows many contradictory elements as I decided to write the work I chose to base approach – while it is formed like a theme leadership support of Linda and Stuart Nelson; in tone, and the use of a very wide terrain of this movement on the well-known Yiddish and series of variations, the ten linked Idyllwild Arts Academy; Chautauqua Institution; musical language and moods. The profiles of song, Tumbalalaika, which I had first learned variations proceed backwards toward the and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. It is the melodies that suffuse it are highly varied, in my childhood. I had always felt it had very tune, starting at their most fragmented and dedicated to Paul Neubauer, in great admiration as are the wide contrasts of lyricism and penetrating words and a sad melody, and least melodic. The tune has been pulverized, and appreciation.

- 4 - - 5 - Transliteration of Yiddish Lyrics Translation: Vos iz tifer fun a kval? What is deeper than a well? Vos iz biter, biterer vi gal? What is bitter, more bitter than gall? Shteyt a bokher, un er trakht A young lad stands, and he thinks Trakht un trakht a gantse nakht Thinks and thinks the whole night through Chorus Chorus Vemen tzu nemen un nisht farshemen Whom to take and not to shame Vemen tzu nemen un nisht farshemen Whom to take and not to shame A koymen iz hekher fun a hoyz. A chimney is higher than a house A kats iz flinker fun a moyz. A cat is swifter than a mouse Chorus Chorus Di toyre iz tifer fun a kval. The Torah is deeper than a well Tumbala, Tumbala, Tumbalalaika Tumbala, Tumbala, Tumbalalaika Der toyt iz biter, biterer vi gal. Death is bitter, more bitter than gall Tumbala, Tumbala, Tumbalalaika Tumbala, Tumbala, Tumbalalaika Tumbalalaika, shpil balalaika Tumbalalaika, strum balalaika Chorus Chorus Tumbalalaika,freylekh zol zayn Tumbalalaika, may we be happy

Meydl, meydl, kh’vil bay dir fregn, Girl, girl, I want to ask of you Vos ken vaksn, vaksn on regn? What can grow, grow without rain? Concerto with Echoes (2009) mine and reminiscences of other I Vos ken brenen un nit oyfhern? What can burn and never end? I. Lontano; Tocatta: Molto allegro love who also paid homage to Bach in their music. Vos ken benken, veynen on trern? What can yearn, cry without tears? II. Slowly III. Aria - dolente, grazioso Each of the Brandenburgs is exceptional in its Chorus Chorus use of instruments, and this concerto mirrors The essential element in the Sixth Brandenburg the Sixth by using only , celli and basses, Narisher bokher, vos darfstu fregn? Foolish lad, why do you have to ask? Concerto that inspired this work comes from while gradually adding reeds and horns to loop A shteyn ken vaksn, vaksn on regn. A stone can grow, grow without rain its very first measure — the opening passage back to the sound world of the First Brandenburg Libe ken brenen un nit oyfhern. Love can burn and never end with two spiraling solo violas, like identical Concerto (and extending it with trumpet A harts ken benken, veynen on trern. A heart can yearn, cry without tears twins following each other breathlessly through and percussion). a hall of mirrors — the echoing of the title. Chorus Chorus Also in mind were other works of Bach’s that I The first movement begins with a soft introduction think of constantly, such as the Ricercar, which lays out important building blocks of the Vos iz hekher fun a hoyz? What is higher than a house? keyboard Toccatas, C Minor Organ Passacaglia, concerto’s harmony, followed by a fiery, toccata-like Vos iz flinker fun a moyz? What is swifter than a mouse? etc. But it also echoes other recent work of virtuosic display. The lines in the movement

- 6 - - 7 - are constantly mirrored and layered in an often AARON JAY KERNIS Company, Society of Lincoln and a disc of his solo and chamber music, dense maze of sound. Center, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Joshua On Distant Shores (Phoenix). Bell, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Sharon The heart of the piece, the slow movement, Isbin. Recent and upcoming commissions He is the Workshop Director of the Nashville is essentially a Passacaglia built on slowly include a major orchestral work for the New Symphony Lab and, for 15 years, moving bass lines, mirrored layers of melody England Conservatory (for its 150th anniversary) served as New Music Adviser to the Minnesota and open harmonic spaces. Strongly consonant and ; concerti for violinist Orchestra, with which he co-founded and in nature, its harmonies are built in imitative , cellist Joshua Roman, violist Paul directed its Composer Institute for 11 years. spirals, while the more angular climax uses Neubauer, and flutist Marina Piccinini; a horn Kernis teaches composition at Yale School compressions of the work’s opening harmonies. concerto for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic of Music, and was inducted into the American and Grant Park Music Festival; a work for Academy of Arts and Letters and the Classical Rather than closing with a faster dance the Borromeo ; a series of Music Hall of Fame. Leta Miller’s book-length movement, the brief, slow Aria suggests a works for Tippet Rise Art Center; and a piece portrait of Kernis and his work was published courtly dance, and is expressive and pensive, for the San Francisco Girls and Brooklyn in 2014 by University of Illinois Press as part ending with a sigh rather than a flourish. Youth Choruses with The Knights for the of its American Composer series. Biennial. Concerto with Echoes was written in the spring PAUL NEUBAUER and summer of 2009 and was commissioned Winner of the 2002 for His works have been recorded on Virgin, for Orpheus for the New Brandenburg project. Music Composition, 1998 Pulitzer Prize, and Dorian, Arabesque, Phoenix, Argo, Signum, Paul Neubauer’s exceptional musicality and 2011 Nemmers Award, Aaron Jay Kernis is Cedille and many other labels. Previously effortless playing distinguish him as one of All notes by Aaron Jay Kernis one of America’s most performed and honored released on Signum is his Goblin Market and this generation’s quintessential artists. Balancing composers. His music appears prominently Invisible Mosaic II with The New Professionals a solo career with performances as an artist on concert programs worldwide, and he has and conductor Rebecca Miller, with Mary King member of The Chamber Music Society of been commissioned by America’s preeminent narrator. Recent recordings include Simple Lincoln Center, he was Principal Violist of New performing organizations and artists, including Songs, three song cycles with soprano Talise York Philharmonic for six years, joining at age the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Trevigne and Albany Symphony with conductor 21 as the youngest principal string player in Orchestra, San Francisco, Toronto, and David Alan Miller (Albany), Three Flavors, the Philharmonic’s history. Featured on CBS’s Melbourne (AU) Symphonies, Los Angeles and featuring pianist Andrew Russo, violinist Sunday Morning, Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras, Walt Disney James Ehnes and the Albany Symphony (Naxos); Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and

- 8 - - 9 - Bournemouth symphonies; English Chamber, St. JOSHUA ROMAN Paul, Los Angeles Chamber, Beethovenhalle, and Santa Cecilia orchestras. Joshua Roman has earned an international reputation for his wide-ranging repertoire, a A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded commitment to communicating the essence on numerous record labels including Decca, of music in visionary ways, artistic leadership Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal and and versatility. As well as being a celebrated Sony Classical. He has appeared at the Verbier, performer, he is recognized as an accomplished Ravinia, Stavanger, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln composer and curator, and was named a TED Center, Mostly Mozart, and Marlboro festivals, Senior Fellow in 2015. and has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, , Pinchas Zukerman, Vladimir This season Roman will make his Detroit Spivakov, Gil Shaham, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Symphony Orchestra debut, and perform his own Steven Isserlis, James Galway, Yefim Bronfman, Cello Concerto, Awakening, with the Princeton Emanuel Ax, Alicia de Larrocha, Andre Watts, Symphony in collaboration with conductor Teddy Evgeny Kissin, Leon Fleisher and Rudolf Abrams. In Europe, Roman will perform one © Bernard Mindich Firkušný. He performs in a trio with soprano of his favorite 20th Century Cello Concertos, © Hayley Young People magazines, he has premiered viola Susanna Phillips and pianist Anne-Marie that of Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, the JACK Quartet at the Music Academy of the concertos by Béla Bartók (revised version of McDermott, with a wide range of repertoire with the Szczecin Philharmonic of Poland. Other West in June of 2017. He also gave his debut at Viola Concerto), Joel Phillip Friedman, Rinehold including salon style songs. season highlights include performances of the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, comprised Glière, Gordon Jacob, Aaron Jay Kernis, Henri Tornado with the JACK Quartet with San Francisco of not only performances with high caliber Lazarof, Detlev Müller-Siemens, David Ott, Born in Los Angeles he studied with Alan de Performances, Town Hall Seattle, Interlochen musicians from the St. Lawrence String Quartet , Tobias Picker, Robert Suter, Veritch, Paul Doktor, and William Primrose. and numerous presenters throughout the country. and other corners of the chamber music world, and . He has performed as soloist Mr. Neubauer is the artistic director of the but a performance of his solo piece Riding with more than 100 orchestras throughout Mostly Music series in New Jersey and is on Notable events from last season included the Light. Orchestral highlights of the season the U.S., Europe, and Asia including the the faculty of The Juilliard School and premiere of Tornado, a new work composed included performances of the Mason Bates Cello New York, Los Angeles, Helsinki, and Royal Mannes College. by Joshua Roman and commissioned by the Concerto with the Portland, Berkeley, Spokane, Liverpool philharmonics; Chicago, National, Music Academy of the West and Town Hall and Memphis Symphonies. The concerto is St. Louis, Dallas, Detroit, San Francisco, and Seattle. The lauded premiere took place with dedicated to the cellist, who gave its “world-

- 10 - - 11 - class world premiere” (Seattle Times) with the Carnegie Hall, and has given a solo performance First Violin Cello Clarinet Trumpet Seattle Symphony in 2014, and has since on the TED2015 main stage. Roman is Bradley Creswick Nicholas Trygstad Timothy Orpen Richard Martin performed it with orchestras around the U.S. In grateful for the loan of an 1899 cello by Kyra Humphreys Daniel Hammersley Jessica Lee Marion Craig November of 2016, Roman’s musical response Giulio Degani of Venice. Iona Brown James Craig Alexandra Raikhlina Gabriel Waite E Flat Clarinet Trombone to the tension around the U.S. Presidential www.joshuaroman.com Sarah Roberts Tim Orpen Simon Cowen election - “Let’s Take A Breath” - brought Jane Nossek Double Bass almost one million live viewers to TED’s Facebook Hugh Klulger Bass Clarinet Timpani/Percussion page to hear his performance the complete Second Violin Sian Hicks Jessica Lee Marney O’Sullivan Six Suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach. Tristan Gurney Alanna Tonetti-Tieppo /Piccolo Bassoon Percussion Before embarking on a solo career, Roman Sophie Appleton Eilidh Gillespie Stephen Reay Jan Bradley spent two seasons as principal cellist of Jenny Chang Siobhan Grealy Robin Kennard Mark Norman the Seattle Symphony, a position he won in Liz Rossi Matthew Glossop Horn Harp 2006 at the age of 22. Since that time he has Steven Hudson Peter Francomb Sharron Griffiths appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Viola Michael O’Donnell Jan Harshagen Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Los Angeles Michael Gerrard Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Moscow Malcolm Critten State Symphony and Mariinsky Orchestra, Tegwen Jones Michael O’Donnell among many others. An active chamber musician, James Slater Roman has collaborated with Cho-Liang Lin, Assad Brothers, Christian Zacharias, Yo-Yo Lars Vogt Music Director the immediacy of the connections the musicians Ma, the JACK Quartet, the Enso String Quartet Julian Rachlin Principal Guest Conductor make with audiences. The orchestra regularly and Talea Ensemble. His YouTube series Thomas Zehetmair Conductor Laureate flies the flag for the region at the Edinburgh (youtube.com/joshuaromancello), “Everyday Bach,” Festival and the BBC Proms, this year performing features Roman performing Bach’s cello suites Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of Sage Handel’s Water Music at The Stage @ the Dock from beautiful settings around the world. Gateshead, is the UK’s only full-time chamber in Hull – the first Prom performed outside of He was the only guest artist invited to play orchestra. Founded in 1958, RNS has built London since 1930. They appear frequently at an unaccompanied solo during the YouTube a world-wide reputation for the North East venues and festivals in Europe, and last season through the quality of its music-making and toured in South America, China and South Korea.

Symphony Orchestra’s 2009 debut concert at © Mark Savage

- 12 - - 13 - In recent seasons RNS has worked with REBECCA MILLER Stortford Sinfonia, Director of Orchestras at Royal conductors and soloists Christian Tetzlaff, Olli Holloway University of London, conductor at the Mustonen, Reinhard Goebel, Katrina Canellakis -born conductor Rebecca Miller junior department of the Royal Academy of and Nicholas McGegan; a host of world class has earned an international reputation for Music, and has worked with the national youth singers including Sally Matthews, Karen Cargill her compelling, insightful, and energetic orchestras of Wales, England, and Venezuela. and Elizabeth Watts, and also collaborated presence on the podium and for her ability to with leading popular voices such as Sting, Ben communicate with audiences of all ages. She Previously, Rebecca was Resident Conductor Folds, John Grant and Mercury Rev. has guest-conducted the London Philharmonic of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, ‘Conducting Fellow’ of The Houston Symphony. RNS has commissioned new music, recently Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London She holds a B.Mus. in Piano from Oberlin by Benedict Mason, David Lang, John Casken Mozart Players, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC © Richard Haughton Conservatory, an M.Mus in Conducting from and Kathryn Tickell, and in the 2015/16 season Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Rebecca has guest conducted in the US with , and for two years was launched a new Young Composers Competition. Sinfonia, Salomon Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, the Houston Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic the Paul Woodhouse Junior Fellow in Conducting BBC Proms, and during 2017-18 the Buffalo Orchestra, Reno Philharmonic, Bakersfield at London’s Royal College of Music. RNS has always been actively involved in local Philharmonic Orchestra (New York), New Haven Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Chicago communities and in education. This season Symphony Orchestra (Connecticut), and the College of the Performing Arts, Bard Music Recorded in the Sage, Gateshead, UK from 14th to 16th June 2016 the orchestra will perform across the region Uppsala Chamber Orchestra. Festival, Huntsville Symphony, Williamsport Producer & Editor – Tim Oldham in Kendal, Middlesbrough, Carlisle, Berwick, Symphony, and Musiqa Houston, and with Recording Engineer – Mike Hatch Recording Assistant – George Collins Barnard Castle and Sunderland, and once Rebecca’s discography includes eight CDs, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in Israel. Cover Image – Australian Aboriginal Painting, Australian School / Horniman again take their Baroque Christmas by including: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment A First-prize winner in the Eduardo Mata Museum, London, UK / Photo © Heini Schneebeli / Bridgeman Image Design and Artwork – Woven Design www.wovendesign.co.uk Candlelight tour to regional churches. Musicians (CPE Bach/Signum/2016 - final shortlist International Conducting Competition, Rebecca support young people learning musical ‘Gramophone Award’); BBC Concert Orchestra conducted throughout Mexico, including repeated P 2018 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Signum Records Ltd © 2018 The copyright in this CD booklet, notes and design is owned by Signum Records Ltd instruments through Sage Gateshead’s Centre (Henry Hadley/DuWon Epoch); Royal Northern engagements with the Orquesta Sinfonica Any unauthorised broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording of Signum Compact for Advanced Training and through In Harmony, Sinfonia (Haydn Symphonies/Signum, and Nacional and Orquesta Filarmonica del UNAM, Discs constitutes an infringement of copyright and will render the infringer liable to an action by law. Licences for public performances or broadcasting may be obtained from Phonographic Performance a long-term programme in Hawthorn Primary Bristow/New World Records); BBC Scottish and the state orchestras of Yucatan, Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or School in which every child in the school learns Symphony (piano concertos by Amy Beach, Aguascalientes, and Sinaloa. transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other- wise, without prior permission from Signum Records Ltd. a musical instrument and plays in an orchestra. Dorothy Howell, Cecil Chaminade/Hyperion SignumClassics, Signum Records Ltd., Suite 14, 21 Wadsworth Road, Perivale, Records’ Romantic ). Rebecca is Associate Conductor of the Southbank Middx UB6 7JD, UK. +44 (0) 20 8997 4000 E-mail: [email protected] Sinfonia, Principal Conductor of the Bishop’s www.signumrecords.com

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SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD524 AARON JAY KERNIS DREAMSONGS

THREE CONCERTOS

Dreamsongs (2013) 1 I. Floating Dreamsongs [13.01] 2 II. Kora Song [13.04] KERNIS: DREAMSONGS DREAMSONGS KERNIS: Joshua Roman cello

Viola Concerto (2013-14) 3 I. Braid [5.47] 4 II. Romance [7.04] 5 RNS / MILLER III. A Song My Mother Taught Me [19.47] Paul Neubauer viola

Concerto with Echoes (2009) 6 I. Lontano; Tocatta: Molto allegro [3.39] 7 II. Slowly [7.57] 8 III. Aria – dolente, grazioso [4.48] RNS / MILLER MILLER / RNS 9 Tumbalalaika Traditional Yiddish, arr. Aaron Jay Kernis [0.56] Paul Neubauer viola, Aaron Jay Kernis piano

0 Fughetta, Op. 32 No. 4 Robert Schumann [1.49] Aaron Jay Kernis piano KERNIS: DREAMSONGS

Total timings: [77.53]

ROYAL NORTHERN SINFONIA • PAUL NEUBAUER VIOLA

JOSHUA ROMAN CELLO • aaron jay kernis piano

REBECCA MILLER CONDUCTOR LC15723 Signum Records Ltd, Suite 14, 21 Wadsworth SIGCD524 CLASSICS Road, Perivale, Middlesex UB6 7JD, United Kingdom. P 2018 Signum Records DDD SIGCD524 © 2018 Signum Records www.signumrecords.com 24 bit digital recording 6 35212 05242 6 SIGNUM

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