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Cello Prayers by Julia tanner, Cello; Robert Marler, Piano
Cello Prayers
© 2006 Julie Tanner (634479440496)
Julie Tanner has been the assistant principal cellist with the Nashville Symphony since 1978. She is frequently featured as a soloist and chamber player in the area, and teaches at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.
An active studio musician since arriving in Nashville, she is presently a member of the Nashville String Machine and she can be heard on many commercial recordings in many genres. Amongst her classical recordings, she is especially pleased with Naxos' recent release of the complete Bachianas Brasilieras of Villa Lobos, with the Nashville Symphony.
On this first self-produced solo album, she hopes that in listening, you will feel the warmth and intimacy of her live performances. With the exception of the the two cello quartets (on which she plays all four parts) the musical selections are favorites from her repertoire. The settings of the hymn tunes are her own arrangements. She plays an old English cello, thought to be (because the label is torn out) of the Forster school in London, ca. 1820.
Her first professional engagement was with the New Orleans Philharmonic’s cello section. She was also principal cellist for the National Canadian Opera Company , and during her years as a freelance musician in New York City, she performed with numerous chamber and orchestral ensembles including the American Symphony, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, the New York Lyric Opera Orchestra, and the Federal Chamber Orchestra.
Tanner’s principal teachers were Daniel Domb and George Neikrug at the Oberlin Conservatory where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in 1970.
Pianist Robert Marler is head of the piano department at Belmont University in Nashville. He and Tanner have been making music together since the 80's when both were on the Belmont music faculty. On this recording, he plays a Yamaha baby grand piano.
Guitarist, vocalist, and song-writer Jamie Huling has been collaborating with Tanner on their original settings of his songs, and some of their favorite hymns for several years. Both members of the same church, they started making music together there, at Woodmont Christian Church in Nashville, TN.
On this recording he plays a Martin guitar.
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Cello, Cello and piano, Cello and Martin Guitar!
author: Mel Hughes
I heard the Cello/Martin Guitar cuts on an interview program on Nashville's WPLN Public station while working away from home (Chattanooga.) The hymn tunes are haunting, just the way I always wanted to hear them. The guitar and cello seemed an unlikely pairing at first. But I really appreciate the simplicity and clarity of both. Mr. Huling's compositions really sparkle with the two instruments. I have recordings by cellist from Casals to Ma but these tunes are the ones I keep on my ipod and in my car.
A profound combination of musical power and spiritual sensitivity
author: Martha Grace Reese
This is a beautiful CD - Tanner reflects real musical artistry, but technical power that is absolutely in the service of her spiritual and musical voice. The classical pieces are authentic, the hymns bring a lump of gratitude to my throat. This is a CD to play over and over....
Such a great CD!
author: Mary
I found this on iTunes where I downlaoded it for me and then purchased the CD for a friend. I love it and use it on my iPod when I know I am getting into a stressful situation. The cello sounds fabulous on my iPod.
This music touches a place deep within!
author: Beth Easter
I experienced a journey of e-motion while listening to this music. I felt connected me to the place within that is ever prayer-full. I am grateful for the gifts made available through the artists of Cello Prayers!
Fabulous
author: Paul Christopher
Fabulous music, beautifully arranged, recorded and performed. The selections are wonderfully varied and elegantly presented. Ms. Tanner is an exceptional artist who needs to be heard much more often in a solo capacity. Buy this disc, you won't be disappointed.
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Concerto for Orchestra
Compositions featuring instruments of the orchestra hearken back to the seventeenth-century concerto grosso, where groups of instruments were set apart from the ensemble in solo passages. In the twentieth century, Béla Bartók made bold use of this compositional technique with his monumental Concerto for Orchestra. Joan Tower 's Concerto for Orchestra features the instruments of the orchestra similarly, in solos, pairs and sections. Concerto for Orchestra requires not only precision and virtuosity from the individual players, but also from the ensemble in its entirety. The virtuoso sections are more than just window-dressing; they are an integral part of the music.
The work is in two continuous parts, beginning with layers of unisons punctuated by gossamer figures in the upper winds. The first instrument to be featured is the French horn, for which Tower composed a free cadenza. Later, there is an extended lyrical section in which the cello section is featured alone. Toward the end of the first half of the piece, two trumpets are heard in a challenging rapid interplay of motives.
Part two is announced by an extended solo for first and second violin, followed by English horn and tuba solos. A rising five-note chromatic line acts as connective tissue, building to a climax five minutes before the end in which nearly the entire orchestra is playing block chords.
Concerto for Orchestra was commissioned in 1991 by a consortium of orchestras, the St Louis Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony, and dedicated to the visionary philanthropist Charles Grawemeyer.
Gail Wein
A New Recording Of John Corigliano’s Revised Dylan Thomas Trilogy
December 21, 2007
Immediately following three performances of Dylan Thomas Trilogy by the prominent American composer John Corigliano, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, then undertook a recording the work for future release on Naxos.
Mr. Corigliano has described the Trilogy, a composition set to the poetry of Dylan Thomas, as “a memory play in the form of an oratorio”, and in its current form boasts substantial revisions to a work that received its original première more than thirty years ago. The arc and flow of the work is one Mr. Corigliano has described as embodying “the three ages of man”.
The work is scored for large chorus and orchestra, baritone and tenor soloists, and boy soprano.
The recording sessions, which took place from 2 to 5 December 2007, featured baritone Sir Thomas Allen, tenor John Tessier, boy soprano Ty Jackson, and the Nashville Symphony Chorus directed by George Mabry. The recording was produced and engineered in surround sound by Steve Epstein and Richard King respectively.