Various Artists – Then and Now: Chamber Music of Richard Festinger (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Various Artists – Then and Now: Chamber Music of Richard Festinger (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:35 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Composer Richard Festinger’s Then and Now includes five chamber works for various instrumentations, featuring Collage New Music, Cygnus Ensemble, Windscape, Calefax Reed Quintet, and other accomplished performers. Festinger’s aesthetic springs from the pitch centered modernists of the late 20th century, but is also informed by his background studying jazz with such luminaries as Gary Burton, shaping his music not so much in terms of feel or expression, but in the way in which he approaches harmony and motivic development.

Richard Festinger’s finely crafted music contains a disarmingly attractive range of expressive characters, from contrapuntally driven dialogue to coloristic orchestration to dry wit. A protégé of influential modernist composer Andrew Imbrie, Festinger also has a background as jazz guitarist and studied with legendary vibraphonist Gary Burton and trumpeter Herb Pomeroy.

Tracklist:

1-1. Calefax Reed Quintet – Invocation (10:27)
1-2. Alan R. Kay – To a Pilgrim (Version for Bass Clarinet & Cello) (09:28)
1-3. Cygnus Ensemble – Hidden Spring (14:17)
1-4. Collage New Music – Il était une fois…: I. Moderato (06:55)
1-5. Collage New Music – Il était une fois…: II. Andante (06:38)
1-6. Collage New Music – Il était une fois…: III. Allegro (04:23)
1-7. Windscape – Windsongs: I. Presto energico (01:36)
1-8. Windscape – Windsongs: II. Lento (02:49)
1-9. Windscape – Windsongs: III. Allegro (01:57)

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