Artist: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Conspirare, Marin Alsop, Craig Hella Johnson
Title: Kevin Puts: To Touch the Sky / If I Were a Swan / Symphony No. 4
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: harmonia mundi
Genre: Classical
Quality:  flac 24bits - 88.2kHz + Booklet
Total Time: 01:00:00
Total Size:  893 mb

Tracklist

01. If I Were A Swan (Kevin Puts)
02. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): I. Annunciation (Magnificat)
03. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): II. Unbreakable
04. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): III. The Fruit of Silence
05. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): IV. Falling Snow
06. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): V. At Castle Wood
07. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): VI. Epitaph
08. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): VII. Who has seen the wind?
09. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): VIII. With my two arms
10. To Touch the Sky (Kevin Puts): IX. Most noble evergreen
11. Symphony N° 4 (Kevin Puts): I. Prelude: Mission San Juan Bautista, ca.1800
12. Symphony N° 4 (Kevin Puts): II. Arriquetpon (the diary of Francisco Arroyo de la Cuesta, 1818)
13. Symphony N° 4 (Kevin Puts): III. Interlude
14. Symphony N° 4 (Kevin Puts): IV. Healing Song

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (b. 1972) is known for his distinctive and richly coloured musical voice. Making their label début, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Kevin Puts’ Symphony No.4 (From Mission San Juan), inspired by Native American melodies. Opening this programme of world première recordings, Craig Hella Johnson leads Conspirare in two choral settings of texts by women poets: 'To Touch the Sky' and 'If I Were a Swan'.

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for 'Silent Night', an opera commissioned by Minnesota Opera and co-written with librettist Mark Campbell, Kevin Puts has been hailed as one of the most important composers of his generation. His work has been commissioned and performed by leading orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the New York Philharmonic, Tonhalle-Orchester (Zurich), the Saint Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra, and by soloists and chamber ensembles such as Evelyn Glennie, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane, the Eroica Trio and the Miro Quartet.

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he received his training as a composer and pianist at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University. Since 2006, he has been a member of the composition department at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.