Aitken: Aspen Concerto / Rameau Remembered / In Praise of Ockeghem
1/1/2000, 9 Tracks, 57:53
Featuring
Gerard Schwarz
Elmar Oliveira
Scott Goff
Seattle Symphony
Hugh Aitken
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Performer Biography
Elmar Oliveira, the violinist, is the first and only American violinist to win the Gold Medal at Moscow's Tchaikovsky International Competition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Hugh Aitken believes that no worthy piece of music is wholly the composer's 'own,' as taste, imagination, and intuition are shaped by past music, making composition an ongoing social enterprise.
Composer Biography
Hugh Aitken, the composer, initially studied chemistry for two years at New York University before pursuing a career in music.
Composer Biography
Hugh Aitken served as a navigator on B-17s flying out of Italy during World War II, after volunteering for the Army Air Corps in 1943.
Performer Biography
Gerard Schwarz, the conductor, has been the Music Director of the Seattle Symphony since 1985, the New York Chamber Symphony since 1976, and New York's Mostly Mozart Festival from 1982.
Performer Biography
Scott Goff, the flutist, has been the principal flutist of the Seattle Symphony for 29 seasons as of 1998-99 and also serves as solo flutist with the Mostly Mozart Festival.
Performer Biography
Elmar Oliveira, the violinist, performs exclusively on an instrument known as the 'Stretton,' made in 1729-30 by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, and an exact copy of it.
Mozetich: Affairs of the Heart - the Music of Marjan Mozetich
Martin: Concerto For 7 Wind Instruments (1949); Polyptyque pour violon solo et deux petits orchestres à cordes (1972-73); Études pour orchestre à cordes (1955-56)
Marjan Mozetich: Affairs of the Heart
Martin: Concertos, Vol. 2
An Eventful Morning in East London - 21st Century Violin Concertos
An Eventful Morning in East London: 21st Century Violin Concertos
