Tower: Violin Concerto, Stroke & Chamber Dance

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[In the Violin Concerto] the ear is caught by the constantly changing colours of the soloists interaction with different orchestral players…violinist Cho-Liang Lin is lyrical and muscular as... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2015
Catalogue No: 8559775
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Length: 57 minutes

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Tower: Stroke

Work length19:47

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$5.15

Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero

Tower: Violin Concerto

Work length21:22

Album only

Cho-Liang Lin
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero

Tower: Chamber Dance

Work length16:15

$4.00

$5.15

Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero

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Joan Tower creates music which is bold, colorful and communicative, her list of commissions and awards providing ample evidence of her ability to engage performers and audiences alike. Emotional intensity characterizes Stroke, which vividly conveys a stroke victim’s dramatic turmoil while also offering a vision of hope. The Violin Concerto, selected for the final round of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, is both a virtuoso showcase and a lyrical vehicle for the soloist, its conversational cadenzas representing a poignant exchange between the living and the departed. The deceptively titled Chamber Dance alternates huge blocks of sound with intimate solos and duets in an ever-evolving riot of colors. Joan Tower’s Made in America (8559328) won three GRAMMY® awards.

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September 2015

[In the Violin Concerto] the ear is caught by the constantly changing colours of the soloists interaction with different orchestral players…violinist Cho-Liang Lin is lyrical and muscular as required, and his slender tone is well balanced with the excellent Nashville Symphony. The orchestra impresses also in two more recent pieces by Tower…[and] bears further witness to Tower's imaginative handling of instrumental colouring.

Tower: Violin Concerto, Stroke & Chamber Dance

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