Frost Symphony Live!

Frost Symphony Orchestra, Trudy Kane, Dale Underwood, Andrew Magaglong, Thomas Sleeper, Alexander Magaglong

Catalog #: TROY1750
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Format: Digital
Orchestral

Taken from recordings of live concerts, the Frost Symphony Orchestra offers works by five American composers including Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Paul Creston, Lansing McLoskey, Dorothy Hindman, and Scott Stinson. For the Zwilich, the orchestra is joined by flutist Trudy Kane, now on the faculty of the Frost School of Music, after retiring from the position of principal flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. World-renowned saxophonist Dale Underwood is the soloist for the Paul Creston concerto.

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Track Listing

Title Composer Performer
Elegy - Soliloquy and Epilogue for solo flute and string orchestra Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Trudy Kane (flute); Frost Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Sleeper (conductor)
Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 26 Paul Creston Dale Underwood (alto saxophone); Frost Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Sleeper (conductor)
Chanson pour cordes Lansing McLoskey Frost Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Sleeper (conductor)
Setting Century Dorothy Hindman Frost Symphony Orchestra; Alexander Magalong (conductor)
Schlaffe's Bruder Scott Stinson Frost Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Sleeper (conductor)

Reviews

  • "The Frost Symphony, which has had favorable coverage in ARG, is new to me. They have a warm, mellow sound and do a terrific job with the contemporary Americana in this program. Three of the pieces are elegies: Ellen Taafe Zwilich's highly affecting Elegy for Flute and Strings, which displays the elegant, bluesy flute lines of Trudy Kane ; Dorothy Hindman's imaginative and sinister Setting Century, which explores the relativity and inexorability of time; and Scott Stinson's chorale-like Brother of Sleep, displaying glowering brass and violent percussion. Lansing McLoskey's Chanson pour Cordes also has a mournful ambience. Livening up the proceedings is the 1941 Alto Saxophone Concerto by the eclectic, underrated Paul Creston, displaying the virtuosity of Dale Underwood "

    – American Record Guide

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