Paterson / American Modern Ensemble -Four Seasons

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: Summer Songs ()
: Autumn Songs ()
: Winter Songs ()
: Spring Songs ()

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Robert Paterson And American Modern Ensemble: The Four Seasons is an album by Robert & American Modern Ensemble Paterson, released in 2021. The album is a classical 2-CD. - .. AMERICAN MODERN ENSEMBLE: THE FOUR SEASONS

Robert Paterson's The Four Seasons consists of four song cycles, with a total of twenty-one songs, for four different voice types: soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and bass-baritone. Each voice type represents a different season: Summer Songs (soprano), Autumn Songs (mezzo-soprano), Winter Songs (bass-baritone), and Spring Songs (tenor). The four critically-acclaimed singers on this album, soprano, Marnie Breckenridge, mezzo-soprano, Blythe Gaissert, tenor Alok Kumar, and bass-baritone David Neal have worked closely with Paterson, and gave the world premieres of these works with American Modern Ensemble, one of America's most beloved new music ensembles. The songs on this album are all settings of poems by various poets (listed below in the track listings), and each cycle is for voice and chamber ensemble consisting of flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello. This ensemble is commonly called a Pierrot ensemble, named after the ensemble that Arnold Schoenberg used for his work Pierrot Lunaire. To date, Paterson has composed more works for this type of ensemble than anyone in the world. The Four Seasons was produced by Grammy® winning producer and engineer Adam Abeshouse, and recorded at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music's Mary Flagler Cary Hall (Summer Songs and Autumn Songs), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Winter Songs), and in the Ladd Concert Hall Skidmore College's Arthur Zankel Music Center (Spring Songs).

Summer Songs and Autumn Songs recorded at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Mary Flagler Cary Hall, New York, NY, October 31, 2019. Winter Songs recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, June 11, 2011. Spring Songs recorded at the Arthur Zankel Music Center, Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 29, 2019.

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ACMO1052.2

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