Julia Perry - Three Spirituals
Any composer who is a two time Guggenheim Fellow, and has studied at Juilliard, and later with luminaries such as Nadia Boulanger and Luigi Dallapiccola, should be a very well-known composer. But Julia Perry struggled to further her careers due to sexism and racism. Her meteoric career in her formative years was also curtailed later in life by illness. Perry produced incredibly avant-garde music, but her Three Spirituals are tender settings of music from her childhood.

Waignein - Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra
Rhapsody is not a programmatic work, but one that spontaneously turns into a natural musical journey. André Waignein showcases and explores both the technical prowess and the expressive nature of the saxophone. The three movements take the soloist from a virtuosic arabesque to a lyrical and expressive theme before jumping back into a lively tarantella. Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone concludes with one final majestic, breathtaking flourish

A highly trained musician with a Bachelor's degree from the Seoul National University College of Music, Jaehyuk Lee was able to demonstrate his talent and become known by winning first place and special awards at a famous music magazine contest in Korea. While studying abroad, he also won Vienna International Music Competition, Mozart Competition, London Young Musician Competition, Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition and The Philharmonic society of Arlington Young Artist Competition (keep reading).

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms’ last symphony is an expansion on the ideals of the past. A staunch supporter of tradition - he was staunchly opposed to the ideals that Liszt was making popular - Brahms is popular today because his masterful reworkings of conventional harmony and forms. His connection to the past traditions were so strong that the conductor Hans von Bülow called Brahms’ first symphony “Beethoven’s Tenth.” And his fourth symphony continues to reimagine old forms, like sonata form in the first movement, and modernizing a Chaconne - a 16th-century dance - in the last movement