Arabesque Recordings Issues reSOUNDings
Music for Orchestra by Judith Lang Zaimont
McCollin Competition-Winning Symphony No. 1 is featured

Arabesque Recordings has announced the release of reSOUNDings - Music for
Orchestra by Judith Lang Zaimont.(CD Z6742) The featured work on the CD is
the composer's McCollin Competition-Winning Symphony No. 1, performed by
the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leos Svarovsky.
Elegy for Strings and Monarchs: Movement for Orchestra are also presented,
in performances led by respectively, Doris Lang Kosloff and Maestro
Svarovsky.

The music of internationally recognized composer Judith Lang Zaimont is
noted for its expressive strength, dynamism and rhythmic vitality.  Her
complex architectural forms are revealed through sculpted lines and vivid,
flexible rhythms.  Her distinctive color-sensitive style balances lyric
and dramatic elements shrewdly, using an almost centrifugal tonality.

The dramatic three-movement Symphony No. 1 is one of Zaimont's few
works with an absolute music title.  Ensemble writing predominates rather
than solo statements and the colorful orchestration calls fully upon the
resources of large ensemble which augments the usual complement of strings
and brass with expanded winds and percussion, plus both piano and harp.
The work was commissioned and premiered by the Central Wisconsin Symphony
Orchestra for its 45th Anniversary in 1995.  It has also been performed by
the Philadelphia Orchestra and will be performed in May of 2001 by the
Women's Philharmonic of San Francisco.

The purest of the works presented here, as well as the most recent, is
the close-knit yet harmonically luxuriant Elegy for Strings.  A single
long melody begins in measure one and is spun out through the tonally
pristine movement in continuous song.  The work is scored for six standing
parts, with much divisi, and incorporates a solo violin as chief member of
the orchestra, blending with rather than leading his partners.  Elegy for
Strings has been performed in New York, San Francisco, Texas and Moscow.
It will be performed in January 2001 in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Large in concept and design, Monarchs seeks to balance the heroic
and the intimate within a single long movement using an adaptation of
sonata-allegro form incorporating three principal themes.  Its characterful
scoring requires a large battery, expanded winds and brass, plus piano and
strings.  It was commissioned by the Greenville (SC) Symphony in
celebration of their 40th Anniversary.

Founded in 1926, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra has become one of the
finest European radio orchestras, performing both at home and regularly
on tour throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S.  Leos Svarovsky is currently
the Principal Conductor of the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of
Pardubice and Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Slovak
Sinfonietta os Zilina.

Judith Lang Zaimont's website is located at www.joblink.org/jzaimont.

She is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-797-9166 phone
and fax, to whom inquiries about her music can be directed.

Arabesque Recordings website is at www.arabesquerecords.com.

Jeffrey James