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Aaron Jay Kernis: Color Wheel - Symphony No. 4 "Chromelodeon" (Live)

6/12/2020, 4 Tracks, 52:11

Featuring

  • Giancarlo Guerrero
  • Nashville Symphony
  • Aaron Jay Kernis

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Performer Biography

Giancarlo Guerrero, the conductor, is a six-time GRAMMY Award-winning conductor and music director of the Nashville Symphony and the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic in Poland.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Nashville Symphony, led by music director Giancarlo Guerrero, is one of the most active recording orchestras in the US, with over 30 releases and 13 GRAMMY Awards.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The title 'Chromelodeon' for Symphony No. 4 is a word created by the composer, Aaron Jay Kernis, combining 'Chroma-' (chromatic/color), 'Melodi-' (melody), and '-eon' (performer) to mean chromatic, colorful, melodic music performed by an orchestra.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Aaron Jay Kernis, the composer, is a Pulitzer, GRAMMY, and Grawemeyer Award-winning composer, and is one of America's most performed and honored composers.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

The two works on this recording, "Color Wheel" and "Symphony No. 4 'Chromelodeon'", share a virtuosic, percussion-rich orchestral approach and fundamental use of variation as a unifying compositional technique.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The composer, Aaron Jay Kernis, sometimes sees colors when he composes, and the qualities of certain chords elicit specific sensations in him, such as seeing the A major that ends "Color Wheel" as bright yellow.

Source: Booklet

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