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Kevin Puts: The City - Marimba Concerto - Moonlight
Katherine Needleman (oboe), Ji Su Jung (marimba), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Like any great metropolis, The City g rabs your attention from the off and doesn’t let go. The meditative oboe concerto Moonlight seeks calm and resolution in a divided Trump-era US.
Kevin Puts: The City - Marimba Concerto - Moonlight
Katherine Needleman (oboe), Ji Su Jung (marimba), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
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Like any great metropolis, The City g rabs your attention from the off and doesn’t let go. The meditative oboe concerto Moonlight seeks calm and resolution in a divided Trump-era US.
About
‘This collection of recordings is especially meaningful for me because it charts my growth as an orchestral composer from my years as a student – when the Marimba Concerto was composed – to more mature work such as Moonlight. It also reflects the wonderful relationship I have enjoyed over the years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop. The Marimba Concerto, which reflects my love of Mozart’s piano concertos, also represents my most direct and unguarded voice as a composer. The City was originally intended as a portrait of the city of Baltimore and more generally of the American city, but the death of Freddy Gray while in police custody and the subsequent unrest in Baltimore sent me in an unexpected direction with the piece.’ – Kevin Puts
Contents and tracklist
- Ji Su Jung (marimba)
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Marin Alsop
- Katherine Needleman (oboe)
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Marin Alsop
Awards and reviews
April 2023
Like any great metropolis, The City g rabs your attention from the off and doesn’t let go. The meditative oboe concerto Moonlight seeks calm and resolution in a divided Trump-era US.
Sep/Oct 2023
[Moonlight] Katherine Needleman, principal oboist of the Baltimore Symphony, gives a magnificent performance. Her long-breathed legato would be praised in any soprano singing a Bellini aria, and when the music asks for virtuosity, Needleman provides it plentifully. Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony play the entire program with vitality and a brilliant level of execution; Naxos’s recorded sound is excellent.
May 2023
With its bright orchestral colouring and harmonic optimism, [the Marimba Concerto] sings with a clear American accent...Moonlight is, to my ears, Puts’s finest orchestral work to date.
