Wolpe's The Man from Midian employs scales ranging from seven-tone (diatonic) to eight-tone (octatonic) to twelve-tone (dodecaphonic), with harmonies often derived from an Arabic octatonic mode.
Performer Biography
Garrick Ohlsson, a student of Claudio Arrau, won the prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition in 1970, bringing him worldwide recognition.
Recording & Production
This album combines recordings from 1991 and 1995, originally issued on Koch International Classics, and was remastered in 2005.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Stefan Wolpe described his Sonata for Violin and Piano, written after becoming an American citizen, as a piece showing his "personal liberation" or "personal restoration."
Composer Biography
Stefan Wolpe, born in Berlin, studied with Anton Webern in Vienna and taught at the Conservatory in Jerusalem before moving to New York in 1938.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Stefan Wolpe, a Marxist, conceived his Moses in The Man from Midian not as a philosopher-priest but as a political agent striving to liberate his people from oppression.
Composition History
The ballet score for The Man from Midian was commissioned by dancer and choreographer Eugene Loring and premiered in April 1942 at the National Theater in New York.
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