The Norwegian '2L' label for me has consistently produced demonstration quality recorded piano sound from a variety of venues. The SACD era has seen many small labels, primarily in the classical domain, which have proven this contention wrong. The 'audiophile disc' has received plenty of deserved derision for presenting in stunning sound music either of dubious worth, or classical/jazz standards utilising performers who mightn't otherwise have obtained a recording contract.

Mainly in a jazz or jazz/popular idiom, this SACD can be confidently recommended to fans of jazz, popular, folk and new age music.

This lists any discs, concerts or collections where this piece is included.This is a lovely disc of lyrical short original compositions, performed primarily by the composer-pianist. The little soprano solos scattered around the piece are meant more as colorings, an obbligato, than a melodic focal point. I always recommend performing Tundra with the optional string quartet (or string ensemble) parts, but the piece was written with only choir and pianio in mind at first, so the string are more of an extra bonus, if conditions allow for it. I also had three voices on the solo soprano lines for the same reason, although I think a soloist could also speak above the choir in this tessitura. Otherwise, they easily become buried by the accompanying vocalise lines and the poem is lost. I moved singers around quite a bit to add body to the lines with text. This is a sweeping, almost atmospheric work on a poem by Charles A. There is an alternate accompaniment of string quartet or string ensemble, but I wanted what I felt would be a lighter, more transparent sound of the piano. Elektra performed it in its original form, SSAA with piano accompaniment. Tundra was commissioned by and dedicated to the ACDA Women’s R&S Commission Consortium, Debra Spurgeon, National Chair. It is easy to feel that you are treading on sacred land, which Tony so wonderfully expresses in his text.” Conductor Notes: The area is quite barren, and intensely beautiful. It’s pretty close to where my father grew up, a ski resort town called Gjeilo, in the mountains between Oslo and Bergen. I asked him to write a text based on the title, and some photos of a part of my native Norway that is very dear to me the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. Composer Gjeilo writes: “The lyrics for Tundra were written by Charles Anthony Silvestri, specifically for this work.

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