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Kernis - Flute Concerto, Air, Second Symphony | Naxos - American Classics 8559830

Kernis - Flute Concerto, Air, Second Symphony

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559830

Barcode: 0636943983027

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 13th September 2019

Contents

Artists

Marina Piccinini (flute)
Peabody Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Marin Alsop
Leonard Slatkin

Works

Kernis, Aaron Jay

Air for flute and orchestra
Flute Concerto
Second Symphony

Artists

Marina Piccinini (flute)
Peabody Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Marin Alsop
Leonard Slatkin

About

Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis’s Flute Concerto was inspired by and written for Marina Piccinini. Its four movements explore darker and lighter elements in various dance forms, most of which begin calmly but end up spiraling out of control. Kernis describes the songlike Air as ‘a love letter to the flute.’ His Second Symphony was composed at the time of the Persian Gulf War and signified a powerful shift of tone in his music. Non-programmatic but linear and compact, it forms a part of his ‘War Pieces’ of 1991–95.

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