Impossible Dream CD

Americas CD

Gerhard Samuel, Conductor
Lynn Harting-Ware, classical guitar
Contemporary Music Ensemble
Nocturne on the Impossible Dream, Samuel
Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra*, Smoot (Lynn Harting-Ware, soloist)
Kabah* (string octet), Ware

“This is a highly adventurous and strangely beautiful recording.”
-The North Jersey Herald & News US

Impossible Dream issues forth from a world beyond the present and into a realm where intimations of mortality and the after death are communicated through pure instrumental sounds. As the rigid confines of convenient earthly perceptions vanish, so too, the musical boundaries extend. When that commonly known tonality is disrupted, one senses a new emotional code in which time is suspended. Eyes closed, an uninhibited mind will find here an amazing virtual reality. Describing the disc’s main piece, Peter Ware’s string octet, Kabah, Joseph McLellan of the Washington Post writes: "An exotically evocative piece . . . with eerie harmonics, long held notes and often sparse harmonies conveying a sense of vast emptiness and antiquity." Featuring the CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Gerhard Samuel, this recording opens with Samuel’s Nocturne on an Impossible Dream for mixed chamber ensemble and also includes Richard Smoot’s Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra.

GXD-5733 (CD, DDD) UPC:640139573329 Total Time 51:26

*Works published by Acoma Company

Ms. Harting-Ware performs exclusively on D'Addario strings.

Her compact disc recordings include The Many Moods of the Guitar (GXD 5732), Impossible Dream (GXD 5733), Forest Scenes (GXD 5734) , Americas (GXD 5736), and Angelica (5735).

Her commitment to developing the classical guitar repertory leads her to publish a catalog of classical guitar music for Acoma•Nambe Editions.

Reviews

"Her light, almost hypnotic touch of the strings and her highly musical interpretation prove each one of her recordings as new points of reference for guitar performance."
-Jazz & Tzaz, Greece

"(Kabah) An exotically evocative piece, describing the atmosphere and spirit of the place with eerie harmonics, long-held notes and often sparse harmonies conveying a sense of vast emptiness and antiquity."
--The Washington Post US

"The music is all engaging, the playing is excellent and the whole album (Impossible Dream) is a most worthy effort."
-Ottawa Citizen CA

"Peter Ware's ‘Kabah’ begins with a haunting, almost eerie prestissimo appassionato accented by sweeping strings and a bed of low notes under a single hanging violin line, creating a sense of awe and mystery. In the andante con mosso, low note clusters are again used to create that sense of weight, the weight of years. Maybe it's just the unsettling nature of the arrangement that makes presto con brio convey such a sinister feel."
– -The North Jersey Herald & News, US

Bio

LYNN HARTING-WARE conveys dramatic musical flair, beautiful tone, and a variety of timbres, which enable her to transverse musical styles and venues with great success. Her recordings and concerts blend traditional classical guitar repertory with her own arrangements for guitar, such as Bach's Goldberg Variations and Schumann's Kinderszenen. She has a fresh eclecticism and finds a sense of fun in blending popular styles such as jazz, blues, folk and new age into her concert programs. Following in the footsteps of Clara Schumann, Harting-Ware also composes for her instrument. Her dedication and musicality inspire composers; and she has premiered and commissioned numerous compositions. In 1996, she was honoured with a repertory expansion grant by the Knight Foundation to build a program of 20th century American guitar works. She also works with composer consortiums in presenting music of our century. Harting-Ware has premiered guitar concertos written especially for her as can be heard on the CD Impossible Dream, conducted by Gerhard Samuel. She gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council, Guitar Society of Toronto and Symphony Hamilton for a new guitar concerto composed by Peter Ware. She received a Master of Music Degree from Kent State University and a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Cincinnati/College Conservatory of Music.