Fantasy
Ursula Oppens (piano), Jerome Lowenthal (piano), Cassatt String Quartet, Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra, Jeffery Meyer
The jarring dissonances and agitated rhythms that pervade the works belie the beauty that exists beneath. Listen and you’ll find it.
Fantasy
Ursula Oppens (piano), Jerome Lowenthal (piano), Cassatt String Quartet, Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra, Jeffery Meyer
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The jarring dissonances and agitated rhythms that pervade the works belie the beauty that exists beneath. Listen and you’ll find it.
About
Pianist Ursula Oppens, stalwart champion of 20th- and 21st-century American music and recipient of multiple Grammy nominations and other honors, celebrates her decades-long friendship and professional association with composer Laura Kaminsky on an album of world-premiere recordings. The program includes two recent works written for the pianist: Kaminsky’s Piano Quintet, performed with the Cassatt String Quartet, 'a concise work of considerable substance and atmosphere' (New York Classical Review) and the turbulent Reckoning: Five Miniatures for America for piano four-hands, with pianist Jerome Lowenthal, created expressly for this recording. A large-scale Fantasy for solo piano explores sonorities from French Impressionism to jazz.
Contents and tracklist
- Ursula Oppens (piano)
- Cassatt String Quartet
- Ursula Oppens (piano)
- Ursula Oppens (piano), Jerome Lowenthal (piano)
- Ursula Oppens (piano)
- Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra
- Jeffery Meyer
Awards and reviews
July 2021
The jarring dissonances and agitated rhythms that pervade the works belie the beauty that exists beneath. Listen and you’ll find it.