2005 Grammy Award Winner for Best Engineered Album, Classical!

Following on their successful recording of Vaughan Williiams' A Sea Symphony (2002) and Rainbow Body (2003) featuring the music of Jennifer Higdon and Christopher Theofanidis, Spano and the ASO are back exploring the music of American composer Jennifer Higdon (best known for her work Blue Cathedral which was featured on Rainbow Body).

Jennifer Higdon's City Scape was the first work commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Robert Spano, and was premiered by the orchestra in November 2002. Ms. Higdon, who spent ten years as a child in Atlanta, describes City Scape as "a musical postcard of the city - a landscape of people, images, and energy." The score is dedicated to Robert Spano, whom she met eighteen years ago when both were at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He was a faculy member at the time and she was a student.

Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra as part of its centennial celebration, and premiered in June 2002 to enthusiastic applause and lavish praise. Following its premiere, The Philadelphia inquirer wrote: "Concerto for Orchestra has shamelessly ecstatic climaxes, scintillating interplay among instruments, and an orchestration that delivers wave after heart-stopping eave of intoxicating color."

"...a lustily played program from a resourceful ensemble..." - LA Times

Musicians:
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor

Selections:
Jennifer Higdon (born 1962)
Concerto for Orchestra
1.-5. I-V
City Scape
6. SkyLine
7. River Sings a Song
8. To Trees
9. Peachtree Street

Total Time: 66:17