Noah Bendix-Balgley, Canterbury Voices, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Alexander Mickelthwate - Leshnoff: Elegy, Violin Concerto No. 2 & Of Thee I Sing (2023) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Elegy
02. Violin Concerto No. 2 I. Broad
03. Violin Concerto No. 2 II. Very Slow Chokhmah ?
04. Violin Concerto No. 2 III. Scherzo
05. Violin Concerto No. 2 IV. Fast
06. Of Thee I Sing

This is Naxos’s fifth album devoted to the music of leading American composer, Jonathan Leshnoff. He was GRAMMY-nominated for his album Violins of Hope (Naxos 8.559809) and is among the most frequently performed of living composers. The themes of these recent works are remembrance, memorialization, and hopefulness. Elegy addresses ideas of harmony and discord through contrasting thematic ideas. The Violin Concerto No. 2 follows the ‘symphony-concerto’ model with a resonant and lyrical slow movement inspired by Jewish mysticism at its core. Pulsating harmonies eventually subside into serene and hopeful writing in Of Thee I Sing, written in an act of creative transcendence to commemorate the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

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