St. Olaf Band, Timothy Mahr – Blue Beyond the Glass (2024) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

St. Olaf Band, Timothy Mahr – Blue Beyond the Glass (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:32 minutes | 442 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © St. Olaf Records

Blue Beyond the Glass presents three bold composers writing for a world-class concert band and demonstrates the dynamism of the St. Olaf Band under the direction of longtime conductor Timothy Mahr, who retired in 2023. The album opens with Jodie Blackshaw’s Symphony No. 1 (“Leunig’s Prayer Book”), inspired by four prayers from Australian poet Michael Leunig; movement titles are derived from each prayer, celebrating the arrival of a new season. The album continues with To Gold in Broadest Blue, by St. Olaf alumna Jocelyn Hagen ’03, a dazzling tour de force inspired by the composer’s home state of North Dakota; Hagen’s music is grounded in possibility, tranquility, and peace. The album closes with the 2021 world premiere performance of Leanna Primiani’s Glass Ceiling, a captivating work that portrays a day in the life of the working woman and the continued fight for gender equality in the workplace.

Tracklist:

1-1. St. Olaf Band – Symphony No. 1, Leunig’s Prayer Book: I. The Blessing of Light (04:53)
1-2. St. Olaf Band – Symphony No. 1, Leunig’s Prayer Book: II. Bitter and Sweet (05:35)
1-3. St. Olaf Band – Symphony No. 1, Leunig’s Prayer Book: III. Reflection and Resonance (06:58)
1-4. St. Olaf Band – Symphony No. 1, Leunig’s Prayer Book: IV, The Creation of Faith (06:19)
1-5. St. Olaf Band – To Gold in Broadest Blue (06:35)
1-6. St. Olaf Band – Glass Ceiling (13:09)

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