BMOP/sound Releases Debut Recording of Jeremy Gill's Orchestral Works

Jeremy Gill: Before the Wresting Tides

Composer: Jeremy Gill (b.1975)

Performers: Chris Grymes (clarinet), Erin Hannigan (oboe), Ching-Yun Hu (piano), Marsh Chapel Choir, and BMOP led by Gil Rose

Release Date: October 3, 2017

TRT: 56:44

Tracks: Before the Wresting Tides, Serenada Concertante, Notturno Concertante

Boston, MA (For Immediate Release) — Known as the nation’s foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new and 20th Century music, BMOP/sound today announced the release of its 55th album Before the Wresting Tides (Released 10.03.17) by composer Jeremy Gill. Marking the debut recording of his orchestral music, this latest BMOP/sound recording celebrates Gill’s masterful use of orchestral color and probing integration of both classical and modern influences. Joining the musicians of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) under the direction of Gil Rose are Dallas Symphony principal oboist Erin Hannigan, Rubenstein Prize-winning pianist Ching-Yun Hu, clarinetist Chris Grymes, and Boston University’s Marsh Chapel Choir.

“With this first recording of my orchestral music, I’m delighted by the idea that these three works in these excellent performances can sound long beyond their respective premieres,” said Gill. The eponymous concerto, Before the Wresting Tides (2012), is a setting to a poem by Hart Crane for chorus, piano solo, and orchestra. It was written partly as a companion piece to Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, incorporating and illuminating both musical and poetic idioms, and brings a new dimension to Crane’s dense, haunting words. The Philadelphia Inquirer called the work “exhilarating,” and remarked: “the ending is a stunner.” Serenada Concertante (2013) pays tribute to touchstone works of the solo oboe repertoire. During the 2015-16 season, the Dallas Symphony with oboist Hannigan premiered this concerto which The Dallas Morning News lauded as “replete with imaginative textures and interplays between soloist and orchestra…By turns stringing out lyric lines, weaving arabesques and exploding in flourishes and runs.” Balancing the Serenade is Notturno Concertante (2014), written for clarinetist Chris Grymes. This exhilarating work explores the genre of night music; Gill dissolves limitations of time, space, and consciousness in seductive, dreamlike flights of fancy. 

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