Description
CD One
David Yang- Lubin from Chelm (10:19)
Kile Smith- The Bremen Town Musicians 12:45
David Yang- Two Brothers (8:49)
Kenneth Woods- The Ugly Duckling (16:47)
David Yang- The Three Wishes (12:41)
David Yang- The Matzoh Ball Man (14:39)
CD Two
Martin Kutnowski- The Spots of the Toad (9:45)
Gerald Levinson- Three Fables
- Alley Violinist (3:04)
- Problem in Design (2:46)
- The Old Magician 8:14
Thomas Whitman- The Princess and the Man with a Pure Heart (17:44)
Jay Reise- The Warrior Violinist (18:09)
Andrew Waggoner- The Emperor’s New Clothes (10:10)
The members of the acclaimed string trio Ensemble Epomeo transform into Auricolae, a fantastical band of minstrels presenting fairytales, folklore, and fables in a two-CD set of new music dramatized via the ageless art of storytelling. More than a dozen parables from around the world fuse traditional allegories with inventive mythical settings, pair timeless legends with new musical scores, and offer original stories whose inspiration stems from the beginning of time. The result is a truly unique synthesis of words and music that is instantly entertaining.
“The music is incidental, illustrative, with lots of opportunities for dissonant, clashing sounds, all intended for performance in schools with no previous exposure to classical music. It’s a matter of appealing narratives, cleverly wrapped in contemporary sounds. Or should that be the other way around?”
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