The Boston Symphony Orchestra has a long tradition of commissioning and performing important new music, and the four works on this album were commissioned and premiered by the orchestra and it's conductor Andris Nelsons during the first years of his tenure. Eric Nathan takes us on a journey through a series of interconnected worlds whereas George Tsontakis marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in a series of Sonnets for English horn and orchestra. Timo Andres carries on 'conversations' with composers of the past while Sean Shepherd has been inspired by five giants of artistic modernism.
3 2. I. Sonnet 30. When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought 00:06:44
4 3. II. Sonnet 12. When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time 00:06:04
5 4. III. Rondo: Sonnet 60. Like As the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore 00:03:55
6 5. IV. Sonnet 75. So You Are to My Thoughts As Food to Life 00:07:46
7 Andres, Timo - Classical Composer
8 6. Everything Happens So Much 00:11:31
9 Express Abstractionism
10 7. I. Dense Bubbles, or: Calder, or: The Origin of Life on Earth 00:04:30
11 8. II. Richter, or: The Rainbow Inside a Bolt of Lightning 00:03:14
12 9. III. Kandinsky, and: Marble, and: Krasner 00:01:37
13 10. IV. the Sun, or: The Moon, or: Mondrian 00:04:14
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has a long tradition of commissioning and performing important new music, and the four works on this album were commissioned and premiered by the orchestra and it's conductor Andris Nelsons during the first years of his tenure. Eric Nathan takes us on a journey through a series of interconnected worlds whereas George Tsontakis marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in a series of Sonnets for English horn and orchestra. Timo Andres carries on 'conversations' with composers of the past while Sean Shepherd has been inspired by five giants of artistic modernism.
