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Claude Baker - The Glass Bead Game & other works | Naxos - American Classics 8559642

Claude Baker - The Glass Bead Game & other works

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559642

Barcode: 0636943964224

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st October 2012

Contents

Artists

St Louis Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Leonard Slatkin
Hans Vonk

Works

Baker, Claude

Awaking the Winds
Shadows: Four Dirge-Nocturnes
The Glass Bead Game
The Mystic Trumpeter

Artists

St Louis Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Leonard Slatkin
Hans Vonk

About

Claude Baker is a much-honoured composer whose music is alive with connections and inter-related ideas. The Glass Bead Game feasts on dreamlike associations and, through deliberately invoking other composers’ music, thrilling collage. Awaking the Winds is, by contrast, ‘absolute’ music, and in a resonant single-movement structure.

The haiku is explored in Shadows, in which parallels between written texts and music are accomplished with great refinement and poignancy. Inspired by Walt Whitman’s poetry, The Mystic Trumpeter offers a commentary that includes musical quotation and deft tone-painting.

Hans Vonk conducts The Mystic Trumpeter. All other works are conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

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