Composer Michael Daugherty is among the most active and prolific of today's living composers. His works are frequently performed in all of the world's major orchestras and new commissions by these orchestras and soloists are popping up all the time. This Naxos album features three such commissions for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. First on the program is the highly engaging, instantly accessible "Fire and Blood," a work for solo violin and orchestra inspired by the Diego Rivera murals painted in the Detroit Institute of ...
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Composer Michael Daugherty is among the most active and prolific of today's living composers. His works are frequently performed in all of the world's major orchestras and new commissions by these orchestras and soloists are popping up all the time. This Naxos album features three such commissions for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. First on the program is the highly engaging, instantly accessible "Fire and Blood," a work for solo violin and orchestra inspired by the Diego Rivera murals painted in the Detroit Institute of Arts. The album's liner notes do an excellent job of tying in the visual component to what Daugherty has composed. Violinist Ida Kavafian, who is quite skilled at delivering "fire and blood" in her playing, joins longtime music director Neeme Järvi in this riveting live performance. Both Kavafian and the DSO play as if this piece has been in the violin's repertoire for centuries; the intensely driven and complicated rhythms and tight and precise balance allow soloist and orchestra to...
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