Description
Title: Blue Mantra
Artist: Bruce Wolosoff
Label: Avie
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 822252281026
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-10-10
Number of Discs: 1
Composer-pianist Bruce Wolosoff describes the essence of his new album, Blue Mantra, as an engagement in multiple dialogues – between music and visual art, between the blues and chamber music, and between various moments in his creative life. The title track was inspired by a painting of the same name by his artist-wife Margaret Garrett. Similarly, Matisse Fantasies arose from seeing a charcoal drawing by the celebrated French impressionist. Blues for the New Millennium, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution to commemorate the turn of the century, expresses a “”before”” and “”after””, and marked a turning point in Bruce”s compositional style as he embraced a more directly lyrical, melodic compositional voice. All three works are scored for clarinet, piano and varied strings, and revel in bluesy lyricism alongside Bruce”s formidable pianism and the virtuosity of his collaborators: clarinettist Narek Arutyunian, violinists Deborah Buck and Michelle Ross, and cellist Clarice Jensen.
Tracks:
1.1 Matisse Fantasies~I. Femme assise en robe longue
1.2 Matisse Fantasies~II. La Violoniste à la fenêtre
1.3 Matisse Fantasies~III. La Danse
1.4 Blues for the New Millennium
1.5 Blue Mantra
