George Tsontakis: Anasa - True Colors - Unforgettable Choose Quantity

Anasa for clarinet and orchestra (2011) I. Doyna - Pistoli II. Soliloquy III. Bir-Zirk!

True Colors for trumpet and orchestra (2012) I. Prologue: Echoeing II. Magic Act

Unforgettable for two violins and orchestra I. Changing Landscapes II. Leapfrogging III. Ballade

WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS David Krakauer, Clarinet Eric Berlin, Trumpet Luosha Fang, Violin Eunice Kim, Violin Albany Symphony Orchestra David Alan Miller

Over the last few years American composer George Tsontakis, winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, has crafted three distinctive and exciting additions to the contemporary concerto repertoire. Anasa, for clarinet and orchestra, combines elements of the Klezmer tradition with dance themes inspired by the lyra and lauto, traditional Cretan instruments. In True Colors the trumpet journeys in harmonically vivid, jazz-tinged directions, while Unforgettable balances the meditative with the playful, moving from ballad to phantasmagoria in a double concerto of drama and drive.

Over the last few years American composer George Tsontakis, winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, has crafted three distinctive and exciting additions to the contemporary concerto repertoire. Anasa, for clarinet and orchestra, combines elements of the Klezmer tradition with dance themes inspired by the lyra and lauto, traditional Cretan instruments. In True Colors the trumpet journeys in harmonically vivid, jazz-tinged directions, while Unforgettable balances the meditative with the playful, moving from ballad to phantasmagoria in a double concerto of drama and drive.