Chasing Home
Albany, 2024
9/10
The Dallas Chamber Symphony bring us 2 major works from American composers, where the very thorough selections unfold with incredible attention to detail.
Joseph Thalken’s “Chasing Home” opens with 8 distinct chapters, as warm strings and bright percussive sounds flow across firm, soothing and adventurous moments that benefits much from the dreamy winds.
The back half offers us Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring Suite (Original Version)”, and it opens with a bare intimacy of beauty and grace before cinematic springs enter the eloquent and meticulous 8 selections.
Both of the tracks here are inspired by views of the migrant experience, and the chamber interaction is executed superbly and is appreciated just as much as much as the enlightening subject matter.
Travels well with: Christopher Rouse- Concertos; Cecil Price Walden- Hours