David Tanenbaum - New American Chamber Music for Guitar (2010)

Chamber music breaks exciting new ground with these three works by leading American composers. Aaron Jay Kernis’s beautiful Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby is a touching song cycle for the unusual combination of soprano, violin, guitar and piano. In the rhythmically agile Aged Tunes, Jorge Liderman contrasts the sonorities of guitar and string quartet. Steven Mackey’s Measures of Turbulence, a remarkably subtle soundscape despite its title, explores the gonglike multiphonic sounds of acoustic and electric guitars. Each of these new pieces was written for the artists who perform them here.

Tracklist:
01. David Tanenbaum, Hila Plitmann, Axel Strauss, Aaron Jay Kernis - Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby - I. The Salutation
02. David Tanenbaum, Hila Plitmann, Axel Strauss, Aaron Jay Kernis - Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby - II. The Light Gatherer
03. David Tanenbaum, Hila Plitmann, Axel Strauss, Aaron Jay Kernis - Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby - III. Double Lullaby
04. David Tanenbaum, Cuarteto Latinoamericano - Aged Tunes
05. San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Ensemble, David Tanenbaum - Measures of Turbulence