Kirchner: Duo for Violin and Piano / Piano Trio / Piano Sonata / Triptych

Featuring

Elizabeth Perry
Joel Sachs
Jayn Rosenfeld
Geoffrey Michaels
Beverly Lauridsen
Cheryl Seltzer

Mark Steinberg
Maria Kitsopoulos
Continuum
Leon Kirchner

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Composer Biography

Leon Kirchner studied with notable composers Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA, Ernest Bloch at UC Berkeley, and Roger Sessions in New York.

Recording & Production

This album combines digitally remastered analog recordings from 1983 with a later recording from 1992, which may result in differing sound characteristics.

Composer Biography

Leon Kirchner held professorships at the University of Southern California, Mills College, and Harvard University, where he taught from 1961 until his retirement in 1989.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Leon Kirchner's music is rhapsodic, moving impulsively between lyric and dramatic, with asymmetrical rhythms and phrasing, and works are conceived as organic wholes.

Performer Biography

Continuum, directed by Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, is a New York-based ensemble founded in 1966 that performs new music and 20th-century classics.

Composer Biography

Leon Kirchner, the composer, was born in Brooklyn in 1919 to Russian Jewish parents and later moved to Los Angeles at age nine.

Compositional Technique

Leon Kirchner's scores include detailed and sometimes unusual performance markings such as 'Haltingly', 'Wild', and 'Coming from nowhere, almost out of control'.