Description
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7wuRxw537g
Conductor: Hugh Wolff
Producer: Karen Chester
Engineer: Preston Smith
Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Guitar: Sharon Isbin
Composer: Joseph Schwantner
"Schwantner's work, played by the NSO for the first time, can be regarded, in a way, as an amplification -- a very musical amplification -- of guitar music. All of its themes and motifs were originally conceived on the guitar by Schwantner, a guitarist. They are translated into a variety of orchestral (largely percussive) gestures by the composer, who is one of the great living masters of orchestration, but some guitaristic quality remains in the final product and stands out in dialogues with the soloist, for whom the music was composed."