Spring Fever Lara Downes and Jordan Bak

• Nkeiru Okoye (b. 1972):
• 1 When Young Spring Comes 02:16
• Alvin Singleton (b. 1940):
• 2 Changing Faces 01:44
• Harrison Leslie Adams (b. 1932):
• 3 Ectasy of Love 07:26
• Betty Jackson King (2928 - 1994):
• 4 Spring Intermezzo 03:03
• Total Runtime 14:29

Info for Spring Fever

"Spring Fever" comprises four pieces inspired by the spring season. The recording opens with Ms. Downes performing Spring Intermezzo by Betty Jackson King (1928-94). King belonged to the same Chicago milieu as Margaret Bonds, with whom she shares stylistic similarities. The remaining three works are by living composers: H. Leslie Adams, Alvin Singleton, and Nkeiru Okoye. Ms. Downes evokes the romantic awakening that comes in the spring with L'extase d'amour (The Ecstasy of Love) by composer H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932), performed with Jamaican-American violist and Sphinx Competition Laureate Jordan Bak. She celebrates the transformations of the season with the minimalist solo piano piece Changing Faces by New York-based composer Alvin Singleton (b. 1940). And a new commission for this series comes from Nkeiru Okoye (b. 1972), inspired by the Langston Hughes poem When Young Spring Comes.

Lara Downes, piano
Jordan Bak, viola

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