Impossible Dream [SINGLE]

Lynn Harting Ware;Guitar;Yehonatan Berick;Violin;Helen Russell;Clarinet;Alonzo Alexander;Piano (Artist), Smoot (Performer), Yehonatan Berick "," Helen Russell "," Alonzo Alexander Lynn Harting-Ware " (Performer), CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble (Performer), Gerhard Samuel (Composer, Conductor, Orchestra), Richard Smoot (Composer), Peter Ware (Composer), CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble (Orchestra), Lynn Harting Ware (Performer), Guitar (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Smoot, Yehonatan Berick "," Helen Russell "," Alonzo Alexander Lynn Harting-Ware ", CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble, Lynn Harting Ware, Guitar
• Orchestra: Gerhard Samuel, CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble
• Conductor: Gerhard Samuel
• Composer: Gerhard Samuel, Richard Smoot, Peter Ware
• Audio CD (June 15, 1995)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Acoma
• ASIN: B000009MFT
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #597,326 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nocturne on an Impossible Dream

2. I. Allegro

3. II. Lento recitativo

4. III. Presto marcatissimo

5. Kabah: I. Prestissimo appassionato

6. Kabah: II. Andante con mosso

7. Kabah: III. Presto con brio

Editorial Reviews

Review

The CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble brings experience and understanding to its telling performances of compositions by Gerhard Samuel, Richard Jordan Smoot, and Peter Ware. The Smoot and Ware are fine pieces, staking out their musical territories and exploring them fully. The Samuel is a small masterpiece, a richly evocative elegy and a fascinating essay in counterpoint and orchestration. Lynn Harting-Ware gives a finely nuanced performance of the solo part in the Smoot Concerto. Her playing is remarkably clean, with all details audible. This is a fine disc, one that repays close and repeated hearings. --American Record Guide

Product Description

Impossible Dream issues forth from a world beyond the present and into a realm where intimations of mortality and the after death are communicated through pure instrumental sounds. As the rigid confines of convenient earthly perceptions vanish, so too, the musical boundaries extend. When that commonly known tonality is disrupted, one senses a new emotional code in which time is suspended. Eyes closed, an uninhibited mind will find here an amazing virtual reality. Describing the Compact Disc's main piece, Peter Ware's string octet, Kabah, commissioned for the Pan American Games Art Festival, Joseph McLellan of the Washington Post writes: ";An exotically evocative piece with eerie harmonics, long held notes and often sparse harmonies conveying a sense of vast emptiness and antiquity." Featuring the CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Gerhard Samuel, this recording opens with Samuel's Nocturne on an Impossible Dream for mixed chamber ensemble and also includes Richard Smoot's Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra.

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