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Darynn Zimmer     Oiseau Bleu (NA078cd)

11/2/1999

 
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Oiseau Bleu
Mélodies francaises de Charles Gaounod, Jules Massnet, Louis Beydts and Maurice Delage. Darynn Zimmer, soprano; Gait Sirguey, piano; Soloisti New York conducted by Ransom Wilson


 
This imaginatively crafted recital of rarely heard French melodies places Zimmer in the forefront of emerging young American sopranos.
--Classical Pulse!

 
This collection of lesser known French art songs of the fin-de-siecle era presents the startlingly pure voice of Darynn Zimmer within piano and chamber orchestra settings. Poems of love, of nature, of despair, celebration and whimsy. This recital was created to evoke a world that had not yet fully become modern.
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Reza Vali           Persian Folklore

11/2/1999

 
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Persian Folklore
Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Alberto Almarza, flute, Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, conductor
 
Had Bela Bartok gathered folk material from Persia, his string quartets might have tuned out something like Reza Vali's.
--Philadelphia Inquirer

 
Many composers of the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries used the folk music of their native countries as a source of inspiration for their compositions. For some composers, such as Stravinsky, this was a short-lived infatuation soon to be followed by neoclassicism, or, for others, one of several different forms of modernism. Among the major European composers, Bela Bartok, Manuel de Falla, and Zoltan Kodaly remained significantly committed to using folk music as primary sources for their works. In the present generation Reza Vali is a leading exponent of this practice and one of the few using Persian folk songs as a basis for composing Western classical music.
As a student at the Teheran conservatory, Vali began to collect Persian folk music, an activity he continues today. He soon began composing music based on the actual melodies he had collected as well as writing music in the style of these songs - 'imaginary' folk music, to borrow a phrase from Bartok. In 1978 Vali completed his first set of folk songs for voice and piano. The next three sets, composed in the early 1980s, were also written for voice and piano, but in 1984 Vali began to write folk songs for different combinations of instruments. This recording includes Set No. 9 for flute and cello, Set No. 11B for string quartet, and Four Movements for string quartet and string orchestra.
 
A stunning blend of Persian folk music and the western classical tradition. That anyone would even try to combine two such disparate influences is remarkable; that Vali has done it so beautifully is big news.
--Stereophile



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