Louis Karchin/Michelle Ekizian
Andrea Cawelti, soprano
Benjamin Hudson, violin
The Group for Contemporary Music: Patricia Spencer, flute; Henry Schuman, oboe; Allen Blustine, clarinet; Dennis Smylie, bass clarinet; Linda Moss, viola; Jeanne LeBlanc, cello, Donald Palma. contrabass; Stephen Paysen, percussion; Aleck Karis, piano; Harvey Sollberger, conductor
Included Works
| Capriccio | violin and seven instruments (1977) | |
| Songs of John Keats Version for soprano and chamber ensemble | soprano and six players (1984) |
“Already reveals a deft sense of timing and economy of gesture…Clear textures that project a strong harmonic profile."
“Karchin’s settings of the poetry of John Keats are his most recent displays of a striking conception of text setting, in which the sonic, syntactic, rhythmic, and semantic properties of the poetry interact with the musical material in an unprecedented fusion of the verbal and the musical.” Citation from the Walter N. Hinrichsen Award, presented to the composer by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Other Releases
Romulus, a comic opera in one act
MATRIX: Music of Louis Karchin
Orpheus and Other Vocal Works
New Waltzes for Piano
American Visions
Galactic Folds
Louis Karchin: To the Sun and Stars
Extreme Measures II
Dark Mountains/Distant Lights
Jane Eyre
Five Compositions (2009-2019)
Duo
