Michael Daugherty with David Alan Miller: DREAMACHINE/TRAIL OF TEARS/REFLECTIONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI

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DREAMACHINE/TRAIL OF TEARS/REFLECTIONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Naxos / March 2018
Michael Daugherty, composer
Albany Symphony Orchestra
David Alan Miller, conductor
DREAMACHINE
Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussion
TRAIL OF TEARS
Amy Porter, flute
REFLECTIONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Carol Jantsch, tuba
The Naxos recording of DREAMACHINE/TRAIL OF TEARS/REFLECTIONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI is in the first phase of consideration for GRAMMY nomination in three Classical Music categories. To all my GRAMMY voting friends, your consideration is greatly appreciated!
DREAMACHINE for solo percussion and orchestra is a colorful tribute to the imagination of inventors who dreamed of new machines, both real and surreal. The flute concerto TRAIL OF TEARS dramatizes the tragic governmental forced relocation of Native Americans in 1838 and meditates on how the human spirit discovers ways to deal with adversity. REFLECTIONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI for tuba and orchestra is a musical voyage down the legendary Mississippi River from Iowa to Louisiana. The Albany Symphony, conducted by David Alan Miller, delivers mesmerizing performances by three outstanding women soloists: GRAMMY Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, flutist extraordinaire Amy Porter, and Carol Jantsch, the remarkable principal tuba of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
DREAMACHINE CD REVIEWS
THE WHOLENOTE MAGAZINE, Summer 2018
Michael Daugherty stands out as being fascinating, compelling and yet profoundly revolutionary in his ability to use the timbral palette of orchestral instruments, squeezing haunting and intuitive, drone-like modalities to evoke feelings of sadness and joy, nostalgia and anticipation, on a grand and sweeping scale.
GAPPLEGATE CLASSICAL-MODERN MUSIC, April 2018
This is important music excellently performed. I would not hesitate to point it out as highly representative of Daugherty at his best, and so essential listening for anyone who wants to swim with the current of some of the excellence of what is happening now. Highly recommended!
CINEMUSICAL, April 2018
Each of these concerti works quite well on their own but taken together provide an interesting overview of Daugherty’s style. The flute and tuba concerti are the greater finds here. The soloists excellently explore these new works convincingly and the Albany orchestra is in top form as well. …Highly-recommended!
MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, April 2018
What we have here are three spanking new concertos, for flute, solo percussion and tuba respectively....Daugherty at his inimitable and engaging best; don’t hesitate.
ALLMUSIC, March 2018
The music of Michigan-based composer Michael Daugherty has been gaining attention beyond the U.S., and this release in the Naxos label’s American Classics series has accelerated the process…With fine engineering from a pair of spaces in the Troy, New York area backing capable performances from the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller, this is an unusually strong Daugherty release.
GRAMOPHONE, September 2018
Michael Daugherty has 20 concertos to his name and this highly enjoyable Naxos disc draws together three of his most recent. The centrepiece here is Evelyn Glennie’s scintillating performance of Dreamachine (2014), his third percussion concerto following UFO (1999) and - for timpani- Raise the Roof (2003)…The Albany Symphony accompany here, as throughout, superbly.