This offering from Carlos Kalmar and the acclaimed Grant Park Orchestra includes the first full-scale orchestral recording of Kernis’s Symphony in Waves (1989). Waveforms — wind and water, sound and light — are the undercurrents of this enchanting 40-minute spectacular of unusual sonorities and orchestral effects. The New York Times called it “remarkable,” the product of the composer’s “fearless originality and powerful voice.” The CD also includes world-premiere recordings of Kernis’s soaring soundscape, Newly Drawn Sky (2005), and the hyper-energetic virtuoso orchestral showpiece Too Hot Toccata (1996).
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