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Music for Violin & Piano

David Bowlin

Music for Violin & Piano

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404945328
Catnr: BRIDG 9453
Release date: 22 April 2016
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404945328
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9453
Release date
22 April 2016
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This new recording presents three major Sessions scores in stunningly virtuosic performances. A sonata in all but name, the Duo sees Sessions casting off the Stravinskian residue that had typified his earliest efforts. Rhythmically sturdy, the music provides something of a justification for the “American Brahms” moniker critics routinely applied to Sessions. The fiendishly difficult solo Sonata for Violin is in four interlinked movements. It is a “rhapsodic” (Sessions’s word) score, that is among the finest works in the solo violin literature. Sessions's masterful Second Sonata was completed in the days following World War 2. Andor Foldes, the commissioning pianist, reckoned the 2nd movement “almost Chopinesque,” while the finale, a sardonic toccata, (Sessions called it “a goose step”) is a caricature of the Nazi Stormtroopers he had seen firsthand in Berlin. Though some of the contrasting music put Sessions in mind of the doleful-sounding foghorns in San Francisco Bay, the vehemence unleashed ultimately sweeps all else before it, topping off one of the most trenchant, dynamic piano works in the American literature.
David Bowlin und David Holzman interpretieren die Kompositionen für Violine und Klavier von Roger Sessions, einem der führenden US-amerikanischen Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts und Pulitzer-Preisträger.

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David Bowlin (violin)

Violinist David Bowlin’s solo and chamber performances of a wide-ranging repertoire have won him critical acclaim from the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times, and have taken him across North America, Asia, Europe, and Russia. A passionate proponent of contemporary literature, among his dozens of premieres is Mahagoni, a violin concerto written for him by Austrian composer Alexandra Hermentin-Karastoyanova. His latest CD releases feature concerti and solo works by Luciano Berio and Huang Ruo, and upcoming releases include works by Dvořák, Shostakovich, Joan Tower, and Mario Davidovsky. Bowlin is a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Musical America’s 2014 Ensemble of the Year. He is also former member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber...
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Violinist David Bowlin’s solo and chamber performances of a wide-ranging repertoire have won him critical acclaim from the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times, and have taken him across North America, Asia, Europe, and Russia. A passionate proponent of contemporary literature, among his dozens of premieres is Mahagoni, a violin concerto written for him by Austrian composer Alexandra Hermentin-Karastoyanova. His latest CD releases feature concerti and solo works by Luciano Berio and Huang Ruo, and upcoming releases include works by Dvořák, Shostakovich, Joan Tower, and Mario Davidovsky. Bowlin is a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Musical America’s 2014 Ensemble of the Year. He is also former member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players. His recording credits include works of over a dozen major composers for the Bridge, Naxos, Arsis, New Focus, and Mode labels. Bowlin's awards include first prize in the Washington International Competition, and the Samuel Baron Prize from Stony Brook University. He has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has also served as guest concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the IRIS Orchestra. Bowlin currently teaches on the violin faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and has taught and performed at numerous summer festivals across the U.S., including Marlboro, Kneisel Hall, Mostly Mozart, Ojai, and Chamber Music Quad Cities, which he serves as Artistic Director. Bowlin is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University.

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