On this CD:
1. Windflower, tone poem for oboe & orchestra
Composed by Johnterryl Plumeri
Performed by Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
with Sara Watkins
Conducted by Johnterryl Plumeri
2. Pride of Baltimore, symphonic tone poem
Composed by Johnterryl Plumeri
Performed by Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
with Sara Watkins
Conducted by Johnterryl Plumeri
Plumeri Conducts Plumeri, Music, Johnterryl Plumeri, Johnterryl Plumeri, Sara Watkins, Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Orchestral, Orchestral Music, Orchestral contemporary classical
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ASIN: B00000IZ9O Release Date: 1995-01-01 |
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Customer Reviews:
Fanfare Review.......2004-03-01
A new label and a new composer, both making auspicious debuts.
Although no biographical data is provided in the booklet, one can assume Plumeri is a relatively young man who
has much in common with other American post-modernists. While showing a fully professional awareness of
twentieth-century harmonic and instrumental procedures, he is content-perhaps because of his Italianate
heritage?-to fall back on the tried and true precepts of the late-nineteenth-century masters, because his primary
aim is to please the ear and to communicate with the soul of the listener.
This music is conceived with a sumptuously sensuous neo-romantic afflatus that calls to mind the similarly
effortless lyricism of the American-born Canadian, Michael Conway Baker (b. 1937), (examples on CBC and
Summit), or the "Victory At Sea" spirit of the Roylance/Gavin music for "The Battle of the Atlantic" on Conifer.
WINDFLOWER is a meditative thirteen-minute tone poem for oboe and orchestra which is modeled on pieces
like Vaughan William's "The Lark Ascending", and is fraught with a comparable kind of pantheistic mysticism. But
this is most definitely not "New Age" music-soothing though formless and emotionally undemanding. Plumeri has
an inborn dramatic sense of shape and pacing, as his twenty-five minute narrative PRIDE OF BALTIMORE
demonstrates. This work, inspired by the saga of a century-old refurbished clipper which was tragically lost at sea
in 1986, could superficially serve as a soundtrack of a documentary film, but is actually a long way from being just
a fragmentary background score. It shows sustained formal growth, diversification, and integration, and it
operates on a much broader canvas, musically as well as philosophically.
These well-prepared, composer-conducted performances and recordings are both technically and esthetically
stunning. Let us hope more Plumeri is in the recording pipeline.
Paul A. Snook
Fanfare Magazine
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