Track Listings (3) - Disc #1| All Artists: Winston Choi;Minghuan Xu Title: John Melby: Concerti Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Albany Records Release Date: 7/1/2009 Genre: Classical Styles: Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 034061112426 |
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John Melby s musical development has followed a circuitous path that might not have been expected to lead to music for digital computer. Trained as an orchestral musician, he spent many years in the trombone section listen... more » |
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Product Description John Melby s musical development has followed a circuitous path that might not have been expected to lead to music for digital computer. Trained as an orchestral musician, he spent many years in the trombone section listening. He trained at Princeton in composition after graduating from Curtis. He was intrigued with Babbitt s exploitation of live performance coupled with synthesized accompaniments and before too long, found himself drawn to an electronically-synthesized orchestra. He has written a series of concerti for live instruments and computer, with three of them represented on this recording. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsExtraordinary contemporary music Charles D. Gangemi | 07/11/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "This latest release of three extraordinary works by John Melby on Albany Records - Concerto for Computer and Orchestra, Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Computer, and Concerto No.2 for Piano and Computer, will undoubtably establish Melby as one of today's leading composers continuing the long tradition of brilliant interplay of solo instruments and orchestral commentary as found in the concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Schoenberg. Expressive qualities, such as long lyrical lines forged in the violin, contrast dramatically with rapid and jagged virtuosic passages to telling effect.
The excellent performers - pianist Winston Choi, violinist Minghuan Xu, and Joel Eric Suben conducting the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra deserve the highest honors for presenting this very difficult music with passion and conviction. Charles Gangemi" |
