Featured – Susan Kander http://susankander.net Composer Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:29:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.29 105908537 New Album of Works for Violin http://susankander.net/2017/05/new-album-of-works-for-violin/ http://susankander.net/2017/05/new-album-of-works-for-violin/#respond Mon, 15 May 2017 01:53:11 +0000 http://susankander.net/?p=1393 susan-kander-hermestanzeMSR Classics has just released this album featuring three wonderful musicians: Jacob Ashworth, violin; Lee Dionne, piano, and Jessica Petrus, soprano. I am immensely honored to have worked with these extraordinary artists.

The title work, commissioned by Jacob Ashworth for violin and piano, is a 30-minute dramatic cycle based on the multi-faceted Greek god Hermes. Solo Sonata for violin-viola-violin was my first commission immediately following 9/11/2001; structured as a “feast-famine-feast” cycle, it features virtuosic outer movements for solo violin with a deeply felt Lament between them. A Garden’s Time Piece is a brief cycle for violin and soprano setting poems of Leslie Laskey.

 

Available wherever you buy or download music.  MSR Classics  |  Amazon

Program Notes  Hermestanze  |  Solo Sonata  |  A Garden’s Time Piece

Sample the Album

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More details are available here: The News from Poems – ensemble chamber opera 2015, 110′

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