The website of Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec
The Arts Fuse reviews Paul Moravec’s new CD (as well as a new CD with works by Thomas Oboe Lee) in a piece entitled: Fuse Classical CD Review: Two New Releases from BMOP/sound — An Indispensable Label for American Composers On Northern Lights Electric, Mr. Moravec gets a strong showing with two major pieces for orchestra (the eponymous work and “Sempre diritto!“) and two concerti, one for clarinet (masterfully performed by David Krakauer) and the [...] Read more »
deceptive cadence from NPR Classical has a review of Paul Moravec’s new album Northern Lights Electric in an article entitled Musical Google Earth: Composer Paul Moravec’s Sense Of Place. Featuring the music from the first movement for Clarinet Concerto, the article concludes “Northern Lights Electric is another terrific album from BMOP Sound, the five-year-old indie record label of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and its conductor Gil Rose. Together they make a strong case for [...] Read more »
WQXR Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project Charts Path in American Concert Music Q2 Music Album of the Week for January 7, 2013 “Northern Lights Electric, the title track on the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s 24th(!) self-released recording in five years, demonstrates just how finely matched the Project is to the album’s star composer, Paul Moravec. The polished sort of pleaser that could effortlessly raise the curtain on a subscription concert, this is a symphonic poem [...] Read more »
With music that “boasts a compelling combination of whimsy, energy and emotional openness,” Paul Moravec is a welcome addition the BMOP/sound catalog. Boston Modern Orchestra Project Gil Rose, conductor David Krakauer, clarinet Matt Haimovitz, cello Paul Moravec: Northern Lights Electric Clarinet Concerto Sempre Diritto! Montserrat: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Paul Moravec: Northern Lights Electric – Pre-Order only Read more »
BMOP Sound has announced the September release of Paul Moravec: Northern Lights Electric, the first orchestral album of Moravec’s music. Northern Lights Electric Clarinet Concerto Sempre Diritto! Montserrat: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra David Krakauer clarinet Matt Haimovitz cello Boston Modern Orchestra Project Gil Rose conductor From the liner notes… While music — especially music without words — speaks an essentially abstract, nonrepresentational language, my own music often seems to involve some physical, tangible catalyst. [...] Read more »
This program of musical portraits by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec encompasses a song cycle, a cantata and a solo piano work. Vita Brevis is a beautiful cycle of five songs that chart a birth-to-death journey, whereas Characteristics enshrines tributes from the composer to seven musical friends, three pianists, two composers, a violinist and a countertenor, in the form of pithy piano commentaries. Moravec’s tribute to Benjamin Franklin, Useful Knowledge, is a soliloquy cum fantasy that [...] Read more »