Armand Qualliontine Archive

Moments of Arrival = Symphonic works and songs by ROUSSANOVl; McQUILLAN; WILLIAMS; QUALLIONTINE; BURNS – Linda Lister, soprano/ Chorus of Prague/ Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Julius P. Williams – Centaur 

by Audiophile Audition | May 28, 2018 | Classical CD Reviews

Moments of Arrival = Symphonic works and songs by ROUSSANOVl; McQUILLAN; WILLIAMS; QUALLIONTINE; BURNS – Linda Lister, soprano/ Chorus of Prague/ Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Julius P. Williams – Centaur  A selection of contemporary music celebrates art, creativity, Nature, and American political life. Moments of Arrival = ROUSSANOVA: Moments of Arrival; McQUILLAN: Poet Song; The Long Goodbye; WILLIAMS: InEqualities in A Society; QUALLIONTINE: Celestial Nights, Part I; BURNS: The Voyage – Linda Lister, soprano/ Chorus of Prague/ Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Julius P. Williams – Centaur CRC 3456, 65:17 [Distr. by Naxos] ****:  Russian-American composer Elena Roussanova, Associate Professor in Composition at the Berklee College of Music, has a notable symphonic work in her three-movement Moments of Arrival, a celebration of those inspiring impulses that arise spontaneously, either through Nature or through human interactions. The musical syntax, tonal and highly suggestive of the American influences of Copland and Creston, achieves an appealing melos as well as rhythmic engagement. The first movement, “Moving Forward,” opens with raindrops and proceeds to bucolic musings on landscape. “Reflections” pays likely homage to Thoreau, a lakeside scene upon which the moon casts images upon the willows and the water. Set as an Adagio – Espessivo, […]