Best of 2018 - Sequenza 21
Garlands for Steven Stucky is a tribute to the late-American composer, Steven Stucky. The project was spearheaded by Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng, who has recorded the 32 new pieces that make up this star-studded “garland”. In addition, Ms. Cheng is joined by soprano Peabody Southwell and oboist Carolyn Hove in a recording of Mr. Stucky’s Two Holy Sonnets of Donne (1982). Musician royalties for the sale of this recording go to the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Steven Stucky Composer Fellowship Fund.”
Reviews:
"Thirty-two new piano pieces composed in tribute to the late Steven Stucky, imbued with the anger, confusion and sorrow of grief, and the joy of memory. Intense and eloquent.” - BBC Music Magazine
“This recording is a remarkable collection of utterances by composers old and young; ultimately, it will bring Stucky’s work to a wider audience.” - theWholeNote
“The sheer number of composers and variety of styles is a testament to the spectrum of classical professionals who were influenced by Stucky and affected by his passing. The album ends with a 1982 work by Stucky...it is a moody, expressive work, easily the high point of the album. Its theme of transcending death at the very end of the second sonnet is a moving way to end the record.” - American Record Guide
| Esa-Pekka Salonen | Iscrizione |
| Stephen Andrew Taylor | Green Trees Are Bending |
| Jesse Jones | Reverie |
| Donald Crockett | Nella Luce |
| Julian Anderson | Capriccio |
| Andrew Waggoner | …and Maura brought me cookies (Remembering Steve) |
| Charles Bodman Rae | Steven Stucky in memoriam |
| John Harbison | Waltz (in memoriam Steve Stucky) |
| Fang Man | That raindrops have hastened the falling flowers: in memory of Steven Stucky |
| Brett Dean | Hommage à Lutosławski |
| Gabriela Lena Frank | Harawi-cito de charanguista ciego |
| William Kraft | Music for Gloria (in memoriam Steven Stucky) |
| Steven Mackey | A Few Things (in memory of Steve) |
| Eric Nathan | In memoriam |
| Chen Yi | In Memory of Steve |
| Joseph Phibbs | Elegy, in memory of Steven Stucky |
| Hannah Lash | November |
| Michael Small | Debussy Window |
| Julia Adolphe | Snowprints |
| Pierre Jalbert | Inscription |
| James Matheson | CHAPTER I: In which our hero dies and encounters Palestrina, Brahms, Debussy, Lutosławski and other dead loves; looks out to see the entire universe before him, and prepares to visit all of the amazing shit therein |
| Christopher Rouse | Muistomerkki |
| Harold Meltzer | Children’s Crusade |
| David S. Lefkowitz | In Memoriam: Steven Stucky |
| Kay Rhie | Interlude |
| Colin Matthews | some moths for Steve |
| Louis Chiappetta | This is no less curious |
| David Liptak | Epitaph |
| Judith Weir | Chorale, for Steve |
| Daniel S. Godfrey | Glas |
| Anders Hillborg | Just a Minute |
| Magnus Lindberg | Fratello |
| Steven Stucky | Two Holy Sonnets of Donne |
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