Calefax: Then & Now - Chamber Music of Richard Festinger - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Then & Now - Chamber Music of Richard Festinger
Artist: Calefax
Label: New Focus
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 613527062354
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-05-16
Number of Discs: 1

Composer Richard Festinger's Then and Now includes five chamber works for various instrumentations, featuring Collage New Music, Cygnus, Windscape, Calefax, and other accomplished performers. Festinger's aesthetic springs from the pitch centered modernists of the late 20th century, but is also informed by his background studying jazz with such luminaries as Gary Burton, shaping his music not so much in terms of feel or expression, but in the way in which he approaches harmony and motivic development.

Tracks:
1.1 Invocation for reed quintet
1.2 To a Pilgrim for bass clarinet and cello
1.3 Hidden Spring for flute, oboe, violin, cello and two guitars
1.4 était une fois... for violin, cello and piano~I. Moderato
1.5 était une fois... for violin, cello and piano~II. Andante
1.6 était une fois... for violin, cello and piano~III. Allegro
1.7 Windsongs for wind quintet~I. Presto energico
1.8 Windsongs for wind quintet~II. Lento
1.9 Windsongs for wind quintet~III. Allegro