Paul Winter - Prayer for the Wild Things [USA]

Paul Winter writes: "The invitation by The Greenwich Workshop to create a companion album to Bev Doolittle's painting, Prayer for the Wild Things, was an honor for me, as I deeply respect Bev's work, and I have had a long-time reverence for Native American traditions and for the wilderness realm of the Rocky Mountains. [...] I envisioned an imaginary journey through a day and night in the Northern Rockies, based on a series of vignettes about the animals, with the saxophone recurring throughout as a kind of interlocutor. I selected instruments to represent seven of the animals we had seen or heard, and aspired to create pieces that celebrate the spirit of the respective creatures, reflecting something of my impressions from watching them move or hearing them vocalize. In choosing the themes, it was important that each of these solo melodies would interweave harmoniously with all the others. I wanted the finale to be a kind of retrospective overture, as a musical analogy to the painting, in which the animals would come alive and give voice together, and then, in the closing unison melody, blend into the mountain landscape again."

Lista de temas:
PRELUDE:
1. Eagle Mountain
2. Round Dance
MORNING:
3. On the River
4. Buffalo Prairie
5. Osprey
6. Grizzly Bear Cubs
7. Tritones in the Canyon
8. Moose Walk
AFTERNOON:
9. Gates of the Mountains
10. Cougar Bassoon
11. Antelope Dreams
12. Afternoon's End
13. Sunset on Eagle Mountain
TWILIGHT:
14. White Goat of the Rockies
15. Loon on Mud Pond
NIGHT:
16. Night Voices
17. Elk Horns
18. North Fork Wolves
OVERTURE TO A NEW DAY:
19. Night into Dawn
20. Dance of All Beings
21. Eagle Mountain

Músicos:
Paul Winter ~ soprano sax
Eugene Friesne ~ cello
Randy Wolfgang ~ English horn
Joe Urbinato ~ bassoon
John Clark ~ French horn
Mark Perchanok ~ heckelphone
Dennis Smylie ~ contrabass clarinet
Paul Halley ~ pipe organ
Glan Velez ~ percussion
Jamey Haddad ~ percussion
Gordon Gottlieb ~ percussion
Arlie Neskahi and the White Eagle Singers



Prayer for the Wild Things
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