National Symphony Orchestra Kennedy Center, Gianandrea Noseda – Carlos Simon: Four Symphonic Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:53 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center
Four Symphonic Works features a collection by John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Composer-in-Residence, Carlos Simon. Each piece was recorded live in concert and initially released digitally, one at a time, throughout the season. The final release, a collection of all four works, will be available on CD and via streaming and download services on August 23. Four Symphonic Works will be released on the National Symphony Orchestra label and distributed by LSO Live (NSO0018).The recording features Simon’s short orchestral study, The Block, which takes inspiration from the visual art of the late Romare Bearden, an artist whose work reflected African American life in urban cities as well as the rural American south.
Tales—A Folklore Symphony delves into African American culture and folklore. The work is an exploration of African American folklore and Afrofuturist stories.
Songs of Separation for mezzo-soprano and orchestra was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra in connection with Simon’s appointment as Composer-in-Residence. The work takes its inspiration from a set of four poems by the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī and features mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges.
Completing the album is the composer’s Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra, inspired by the poem Awake, Asleep, written by the Nepali poet Rajendra Bhandari. The poet, “warns of the danger of being obliviously asleep in a social world, but yet how collective wakefulness provides ‘a bountiful harvest of thoughts,’” said Simon in his liner notes.
Tracklist:
1. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: The Block (06:36)
2. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Tales – A Folklore Symphony: I. Motherboxx Connection (04:48)
3. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Tales – A Folklore Symphony: II. Flying Africans (04:46)
4. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Tales – A Folklore Symphony: III. Go Down Moses (Let My People Go) (08:16)
5. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Tales – A Folklore Symphony: IV. John Henry (04:43)
6. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Songs of Separation: I. The Garden (04:39)
7. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Songs of Separation: II. Burning Hell (04:18)
8. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Songs of Separation: III. Dance (03:16)
9. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Songs of Separation: IV. We Are All the Same (05:24)
10. National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda – Simon: Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra (20:02)
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