Violinist Ani Kavafian plays a 1736 Stradivarius, a famous and valuable violin made by the Stradivari family.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Stephen Hartke, the composer of The Horse with the Lavender Eye, is fascinated by non-sequiturs and how sense can emerge from nonsense, using diverse imagery as a stimulus for his musical thinking.
Composition History
Aaron Copland's Sextet for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet is a chamber arrangement of his earlier orchestral work, Short Symphony, created to make the music more accessible and increase its performance frequency.
Recording & Production
The recording of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra was captured live in concert, unlike the other pieces on this album which were recorded in studio sessions.
Performer Biography
Violinist Ida Kavafian and her husband breed, train, and show prize-winning champion Hungarian Vizsla dogs under the kennel name 'Opus One Vizslas'.
Performer Biography
Cellist Fred Sherry, a performer on this album, created and directed 'A Great Day in New York' in 2001, a groundbreaking festival featuring the music of 52 living composers for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Performer Biography
David Shifrin, the clarinetist on this album, has served as Artistic Director for Chamber Music Northwest since 1981 and for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 1992 to 2004.
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