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Chicago-based composer Gregory Hutter writes accessible music that's evocative of familiar sounds and scenes without being obvious about it. He pulls off a couple of neat tricks. First, he is among the few contemporary composers who manages to employ both traditional tonality and more dissonant harmonic idioms without seeming conflicted or, for, the most part, without losing the thread of a consistent artistic personality. Second, he employs Baroque procedures in new ways, neither sentimentally nor with a Stravinskian dryness; the music on this disc bears some affinities with that of John Adams in its treatment of older musical languages. Still Life (2004) is entirely tonal, using gradations of texture between the terraced quality of Baroque music and the soft focus of Impressionism to evoke the contrasts of color and texture in a classic still-life painting. Skyscrapers, a tribute to the modernist architect Mies van der Rohe, makes little use of tonal idioms, but is evocative of shapes and forms in much the same way, and the opening Electric Traction (2002), evoking a South Chicago train line, is clearly programmatic while keeping just clear of cliché. Perhaps the least successful works on the disc are the three Melancholy Rags, Book I, written under the influence of Hutter's ragtime-oriented composers at the University of Michigan, William Bolcom and William Albright: they're pleasant enough, but it's hard to say what they add to the ragtime genre. As a whole, the disc offers a program of orchestral and piano music that ought to be of interest to young performers in either medium who are seeking a new connection with audiences. Many orchestral premieres these days are recorded with comparatively inexpensive Eastern European ensembles (here the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra of Olomouc), while North Americans (in this case Canadian pianist Winston Choi) take the smaller pieces. All acquit themselves solidly, and the disc is another strong entry in Naxos' impressively diverse American Classics series.
© TiVo
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Electric Traction (Gregory Hutter)
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer - Andreas Herm Baumgartner, Conductor
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Concerto n.1 in sol minore F. I/211 (Gregory Hutter)
Winston Choi, Artist, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Winston Choi, Artist, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Winston Choi, Artist, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Winston Choi, Artist, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Winston Choi, Artist, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Still Life (Gregory Hutter)
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gregory Hutter, Composer - Andreas Herm Baumgartner, Conductor - Miroslav Safar, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Skyscrapers (Gregory Hutter)
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Toshiyuki Shimada, Conductor - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Toshiyuki Shimada, Conductor - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Concerto n.2 in re minore F. I/212 (Gregory Hutter)
Winston Choi, Artist, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Winston Choi, Artist, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Winston Choi, Artist, MainArtist - Gregory Hutter, Composer
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
Album review
Chicago-based composer Gregory Hutter writes accessible music that's evocative of familiar sounds and scenes without being obvious about it. He pulls off a couple of neat tricks. First, he is among the few contemporary composers who manages to employ both traditional tonality and more dissonant harmonic idioms without seeming conflicted or, for, the most part, without losing the thread of a consistent artistic personality. Second, he employs Baroque procedures in new ways, neither sentimentally nor with a Stravinskian dryness; the music on this disc bears some affinities with that of John Adams in its treatment of older musical languages. Still Life (2004) is entirely tonal, using gradations of texture between the terraced quality of Baroque music and the soft focus of Impressionism to evoke the contrasts of color and texture in a classic still-life painting. Skyscrapers, a tribute to the modernist architect Mies van der Rohe, makes little use of tonal idioms, but is evocative of shapes and forms in much the same way, and the opening Electric Traction (2002), evoking a South Chicago train line, is clearly programmatic while keeping just clear of cliché. Perhaps the least successful works on the disc are the three Melancholy Rags, Book I, written under the influence of Hutter's ragtime-oriented composers at the University of Michigan, William Bolcom and William Albright: they're pleasant enough, but it's hard to say what they add to the ragtime genre. As a whole, the disc offers a program of orchestral and piano music that ought to be of interest to young performers in either medium who are seeking a new connection with audiences. Many orchestral premieres these days are recorded with comparatively inexpensive Eastern European ensembles (here the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra of Olomouc), while North Americans (in this case Canadian pianist Winston Choi) take the smaller pieces. All acquit themselves solidly, and the disc is another strong entry in Naxos' impressively diverse American Classics series.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : 59:22 - DDD - Enregistré à la Salle Philharmonique de Olomouc en République Tchèque les *** 16 juin 2003 & * 12 juin 2005, et au Sparrow Sound Design à Chicago (USA) les **** 8 novembre 2001 & ** 4 février 2002 - Notes en anglais
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:14
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc Winston Choi Miroslav Safar Andreas Herm Baumgartner Toshiyuki Shimada
- Composer: Gregory Hutter
- Label: Naxos
- Area: Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Composers born after 1958
- Collection: Naxos American Classics
(C) 2008 Naxos (P) 2008 Naxos
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