Stephen Mager's Illuminations
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Work

Composer

MP3 Sample

Written

Instrumentation

Performance

Saltarello (The Falcon)
from Illuminations

Stephen Mager

5.9 MB

2002

Lois Herbine, piccolo &
Sophie Bruno, harp

Concerts at Carmel
September 2007

"(In) the recently composed Illuminations, a wonderfully original song cycle by Stephen Mager based on texts in archaic English for voice, piccolo, and harp, the piccolo and harp contributions by Lois Bliss Herbine and Sophie Bruno Labiner are models of color-driven expression"
&ndashThe Philadelphia Inquirer record review by David Patrick Stearns, May 3, 2009 (Iluminations, DTR 6050)

"Not the least part of this disc's success is the outstanding quality of the artists. . . Lois Bliss Herbine seems to be saying in each piece, 'Listen to me prove what the piccolo, and this composer, can do!'. . . Harpist Sophie Bruno makes a luminous contribution to an excerpt from Stephen Mager's cycle for soprano, piccolo and harp based on Middle English lyrics and courtly love poems."
&ndashGramophone North American Review sub-titled "A high-flying recital which shows that the piccolo can do more than tootle" by Laurence Vittes, January, 2005 (Take Wing, Crystal 713)

"Another leading wind soloist takes flight &ndash or in Crystal's rubric takes wing &ndash in a recital of contemporary American music. Lois Bliss Herbine is clearly a committed exponent of such music, having commissioned and performed it with a number of ensembles and in a wide variety of media. She's joined by some able colleagues in a programme that is entertaining and wide ranging."
&ndashMusicWeb International Record Review by Jonathan Woolf, December, 2004 (Take Wing, Crystal 713)

ILLUMINATIONS, Saltarello (The falcon) by Stephen Mager 2008 by DTR Music Used with permission.

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