Boston Symphony Commissions Boston Symphony Orchestra & Andris Nelsons

• Eric Nathan (b. 1983):
• 1 The Space of a Door 11:26
• George Tsontakis (b. 1951): Sonnets:
• 2 Sonnets: No. 1, Sonnet 30 "When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought" 06:44
• 3 Sonnets: No. 2, Sonnet 12 "When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time" 06:04
• 4 Sonnets: No. 3, Sonnet 60 "Like As the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore" 03:55
• 5 Sonnets: No. 4, Sonnet 75 "So You Are to My Thoughts As Food to Life" 07:46
• Timo Andres (b. 1985):
• 6 Everything Happens So Much 11:31
• Sean Shepherd (b. 1979): Express Abstractionism:
• 7 Express Abstractionism: I. Dense Bubbles, Calder, The Origin of Life on Earth 04:30
• 8 Express Abstractionism: II. Richter, The Rainbow Inside a Bolt of Lightning 03:14
• 9 Express Abstractionism: III. Kandinsky, and Marble, and Krasner 01:37
• 10 Express Abstractionism: IV. The Sun, The Moon, Mondrian 04:14
• Total Runtime 01:01:01

Info for Boston Symphony Commissions

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has a long tradition of commissioning and performing important new music, and the four works on this album were commissioned and premiered by the orchestra and its conductor Andris Nelsons during the first years of his tenure. Eric Nathan takes us on a journey through a series of interconnected worlds whereas George Tsontakis marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in a series of Sonnets for English horn and orchestra. Timo Andres carries on ‘conversations’ with composers of the past while Sean Shepherd has been inspired by five giants of artistic modernism.

Robert Sheena, english horn
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor

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Booklet for Boston Symphony Commissions