Pulitzer Prize-and GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis’s Flute Concerto was inspired by and written for Marina Piccinini. Its four movements explore darker and lighter elements in various dance forms, most of which begin calmly but end up spiraling out of control. Kernis describes the songlike Air as ‘a love letter to the flute.’ His Second Symphony was composed at the time of the Persian Gulf War and signified a powerful shift of tone in his music. Non-programmatic but linear and compact, it forms a part of his ‘War Pieces’ of 1991–95.
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“… A worthy release by one of our best composers. Performers are excellent. Notes by the composer.”
Allen Gimbel – American Record Guide – January/February 2020
"The 2015 Flute Concerto is the headline work here (and it's a cracker), but the much earlier Second Symphony (1991) leaves the biggest impression, packing an emotional punch" ****
Michael Beek - BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) - January 2020
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