Catalog Number NV6031

Release Date March 11, 2016

TRACK LISTING

San José Chamber Orchestra | Barbara Day Turner, conductor

All works commissioned and premiered by SJCO

 

1  Piano Concerto - Michael Ching (1996)

Craig Bohmler, piano

 

Saints - Craig Bohmler, Marion Adler (2002)

Layna Chianakas, mezzo-soprano

 

 2  I. He Sings

 3  II. St. Joan

 4  III. Grace

 5  IV. The Mouth of God

 6  V. At Lourdes

 

Tango Barroco - Michael Touchi (2001)

William Trimble, soprano saxophone;

Patricia Emerson Mitchell, english horn

 

 7  I. Introducción

 8  II. Canción

 9  III. Toccata

 

 

San José Chamber

Orchestra 25th Anniversary

San José Chamber Orchestra | Barbara Day Turner, conductor

All works commissioned and premiered by SJCO

Layna Chianakas, mezzo-soprano

William Trimble, soprano saxophone; Patricia Emerson Mitchell, english horn

 

OVERVIEW

Celebrating their 25th-anniversary concert season in 2016, the San José Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestra Barbara Day Turner, presents a commemorative collection of contemporary works on Navona Records, showcasing the ensemble’s commitment to new music as well as their stylistic versatility.

 

Michael Ching’s Piano Concerto is a work of variations on a theme aiming to capture the melodic grandeur and spirit of composers like Haydn, Beethoven, Liszt and Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mozart, and Mendelssohn. Craig Bohmler and Marion Adler’s Saints is a cycle of five songs about faith and humans’ passionate exploration to understand the heart of God. San José Mercury News calls Saints “succinct, the emotions unmistakable, [and] the craft unerring.” Michael Touchi proposes the following question to summarize his inspiration for Tango Barroco: “What if Antonio Vivaldi had lived in the Argentina of the 1930s?”

 

Impassioned and poised, the San José Chamber Orchestra and Day Turner demonstrate the eclectic programming an audience member can experience at one of their concerts with these commanding and captivating performances.

 

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HIGHLIGHTS

Opera Today describes the Maestra's recent performance of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa:  “Conductor Barbara Day Turner wielded a commanding baton that made the orchestration pulse with character and vitality…. She unleashed every bit of passion from the rhapsodic moments, and discovered a beautiful balance with the more straightforward (and sometimes witty) conversational exchanges…. Barbara Day Turner may have just achieved the most accomplished and inspired operatic conducting I have experienced in recent memory.”

 

San Francisco Classical Voices hails, “…the chamber orchestra’s music director, Barbara Day Turner, continues to produce sparkling, imaginative, and in-your-face programs…”

 

Named the 2012 Silicon Valley Arts Council “On Stage” Artist Laureate, Maestra Barbara Day Turner is also long-time Music Administrator and Conductor of the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater. Turner has conducted opera, musical theatre and concerts in Germany, Mexico and throughout the United States

 

The San José Chamber Orchestra is recipient of five ASCAP/League of American Orchestras awards for adventurous programming and has commissioned and/or premiered more than 150 new works by North American composers since the orchestra's inception in 1991

 

 

San José Chamber Orchestra

The San José Chamber Orchestra is recipient of five ASCAP/League of American Orchestras awards for adventurous programming and has commissioned and/or premiered over 130 new works by North American composers since the orchestra’s inception in 1991. Making San José’s Trianon Theatre its concert home, SJCO always has something new and exciting on stage due to a remarkable resident ensemble of exceptional instrumentalists. The orchestra, beginning its 25th anniversary season this month, has collaborated with a long list of solo artists that range from the renowned pianist Jon Nakamatsu, to the flamenco dancer Danica Sena doubling as castanet soloist, all the way to personalities such as William F. Buckley, Jr. as harpichordist. The orchestra also mentors and oversees 6 youth orchestras serving 120 young musicians, and frequently collaborates with other area arts organizations, including the Choral Project and sjDANCEco.

 

 

CREDITS

 

Piano Concerto recorded October 1997 at the

Trianon Theatre in San José CA

 

Recording Engineer Tom Johnson

Assistant Engineer David Clementson

 

Saints recorded October 2003 at the Trianon Theatre

in San José CA

 

Recording Engineer Tom Johnson

 

Tango Barroco recorded October 2001 at the

Trianon Theatre in San José CA

 

Recording Engineer Tom Johnson

 

Executive Producer Bob Lord

Audio Director Jeff LeRoy

Production Engineer Nate Hunter

Art & Production Director Brett Picknell

Graphic Designer Emily Roulo

A&R Michael Papa

Marketing Specialist Morgan MacLeod