Salathé: Imaginary Birds

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Release Date: 8th Feb 2019
Catalogue No: RR8006
Label: Ravello Records
Length: 45 minutes

Salathé: Mandarin Ducks

Work length8:20

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Ling-Fei Kang (oboe), Charles Huang (cor anglais)
Recorded: 12-13 June 2018
Recording Venue: Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

I. Playing in the Water

Track length1:29

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II. Squabbling over a Slug

Track length1:24

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III. Teasing a Young Boy

Track length0:41

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IV. Brooding over a Sick Mate

Track length1:31

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V. Nesting by the Lake

Track length0:57

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VI. Leading Ducklings Amongst the Stones

Track length0:41

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VII. Flying Away

Track length1:37

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Salathé: The Heart that Loves But Once

Work length9:29

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Andrew Knebel (viola), Annabelle Täubl (harp), Charles Huang (oboe), Yu-Chen Shih (piano)
Recorded: 20 February 2007
Recording Venue: University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Salathé: Imaginary Birds of the Frozen North

Work length4:57

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Charles Huang (cor anglais)
Recorded: 12-13 June 2018
Recording Venue: Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

I. Lesser Snow Ostrich

Track length1:29

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II. Great Northern Wandering Dodo

Track length1:40

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III. Sub-arctic Screech Owl

Track length1:48

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Salathé: The Wood Between the Worlds

Work length19:27

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Katie Kennedy (cello), Ling-Fei Kang (oboe), Charles Huang (cor anglais), Mohamed Shams (piano)
Recorded: 12-13 June 2018
Recording Venue: Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

I. The Wood

Track length2:26

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II. A Frozen World, at the Dawn of Time

Track length2:07

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III. A Dead World under a Dying Sun

Track length2:21

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IV. A World Shrouded in Forest

Track length2:35

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V. A World Ruled by Machines

Track length0:52

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VI. The Wood

Track length1:53

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VII. A World of Ocean

Track length2:10

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VIII. A World of Fools, Enamored of the Glory of War

Track length1:02

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IX. Suddenly, the Same World Many Years Later, Now Transfigured by Wisdom

Track length1:43

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X. The Wood

Track length2:18

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Expecting the Spring Breeze (arr. P. Salathé for oboe and guitar)

Work length3:02

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John Birt (guitar), Ling-Fei Kang (oboe)
Recorded: 12-13 June 2018
Recording Venue: Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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What can one expect from a musician who spent his youth getting into trouble by furtively composing in chemistry class? Apparently a lot, provided they are cut from the same cloth as multi-faceted composer Phil Salathé, the brains behind Imaginary Birds: Music for Oboe and English Horn. The commissioned duet Mandarin Ducks is as much a natural observation as it is a musical piece of work: With the precise gaze of an ornithologist, Salathé illustrates seven enchanting anatine scenes. Fittingly, these short pieces roam about in free form – just as their natural subjects would. The title also nods to the recent marriage of the two performers, oboist Ling-Fei Kang and Charles Huang on English horn, as mandarin ducks are known for their lifelong fidelity. The upbeat start of the album soon grinds to a halt, however, in The Heart That Loves But Once. Inspired in title and style by the music of Robert Schumann and interspersed by the chilling whispers of a celesta, the rhapsodic work chronicles the disheartening state of a lover who finds his desires unattainable. Imaginary Birds of the Frozen North harks back to an avian theme, musically depicting three very different birds with an accuracy that is equal parts surprising, hilarious, and astonishing: a proud, leery ostrich, a dodo anxious of its forthcoming extinction, and an enigmatic screech owl. The Wood Between The Worlds takes the listener on a walk through a mystical landscape and conjures a cryptic, ethereal kind of beauty. The secret highlight of this mini-cycle is indubitably “IV. A World Shrouded in Forest,” in which the composer fuses his multifarious musical influences into an evocative portrait of not only the world he is painting, but also of a highly recognizable compositional style. Expecting the Spring Breeze rounds off the album with Salathé's arrangement of a lyrical melody composed by Teng Yu-hsien, completing the overarching natural theme of Imaginary Birds.

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