Ned Rorem: Winter Pages/Bright Music
Liner Notes   Cat. No. 80416     Release Date: 1992-01-01

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival: Ani & Ida Kavafian, violin; Fred Sherry, cello; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Marya Martin, flute; Frank Morelli, bassoon; Charles Wadsworth, Andre-Michel Schub, piano

Ned Rorem's music strives for clarity. He distrusts the convoluted, the pompous, the grandiose. To some degree this is a legacy of his years in Paris and his exposure to figures such as Poulenc, Auric, and Cocteau. However, Rorem treated the neoclassical aesthetic not with French irony and emotional distance, but with American openness and first-name intimacy, adding clarity of emotional expression to intelligibility of means. Winter Pages and Bright Music exemplify Rorem's subtle, direct style that, while evocative of his French influences, communicates in an unmistakable and unique voice.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Players

Ned Rorem: Winter Pages/Bright Music

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Track Listing

Winter Pages: I. A Mirror
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Winter Pages: II. The sun that brief December day
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Winter Pages: III. Around the house the flakes fly faster
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Winter Pages: IV. Paris then
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Winter Pages: V. Dorchester Avenue
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Winter Pages: VI. Hesitations
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Winter Pages: VII. Urged by earnest violins
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Winter Pages: VIII. Moments fly by like a snowstorm
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Winter Pages: IX. Rue des Saints-Pères
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Winter Pages: X. Valse Oubliée
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Winter Pages: XI. Stone Snowballs
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Winter Pages: XII. Still Life
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Bright Music: I. Fandango
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Bright Music: II. Pierrot
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Bright Music: III. Dance-Song-Dance
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Bright Music: IV. Another Dream
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Bright Music: V. Chopin
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