Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms

Product Description This album presents four world premiere recordings of works by Christopher Rouse (b.1949), the New York Philharmonic’s second Marie-Josee Kravis Composer-in-Residence, three of them composed for the Orchestra and Music Director Alan Gilbert. Taken together, the Fourth Symphony, Prospero’s Rooms and Odna Zhizn bear witness to a remarkable period of artistic collaboration between the legendary Orchestra, its celebrated Music Director, and one of America s most evocative composers. Review “The highlight here is the Third Symphony. A fortississimo salvo of trumpets and fierce tuttiroar launch the rock’em-sock’em first movement. By contrast, the second movement centers on a plaintive theme, uttered by English horn above warm low strings. Five variations follow; the second, scored for two harps and strings, provides one of the disc’s most memorable moments.” –Patrick Castillo, WQXR Q2 Album of the Week, May 30, 2016 “I’m amazed by ‘Odna Zhizn’. When it passes across into the tension and quiet of the final minutes, you have the fierce instinct that very powerful emotion is at work.” “Finding a record as brilliant as this is why I love music. I get complacent, bored maybe, stuck in my ways – but keep looking & you never, ever know what you’re going to hear next. So it is with this dark wonder.” –Classical Nowhere, June 22, 2016

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