Alchemy (2019)

This collection of chamber works were each commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, and given their premieres at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival. The album takes its title from the final work on the program, Secret Alchemy, by Pierre Jalbert. However, it might apply to the entire program, which combines common elements (traditional late Romantic tonality, common chamber ensembles, classical forms of one kind or another) into pieces with varying effects. Perhaps the most effective is the opening Piano ... Read More

This collection of chamber works were each commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, and given their premieres at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival. The album takes its title from the final work on the program, Secret Alchemy, by Pierre Jalbert. However, it might apply to the entire program, which combines common elements (traditional late Romantic tonality, common chamber ensembles, classical forms of one kind or another) into pieces with varying effects. Perhaps the most effective is the opening Piano Quintet of Jalbert, whose movement titles all refer to existing forms or qualities: "Mannheim Rocket" (sample this, the 18th century Mannheim Rocket is there but does not dominate), Kyrie, Scherzo, and "Pulse." Yet it is not a neoclassic work, although the influence of Stravinsky is detectable, or even a neo-Romantic one; Jalbert uses each of his models not as a whiff of the past but as a basis for energetic, individual forms. The whole makes up the four recognizable movements of a... Read Less

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