Wayne Alpern is a New York City composer, arranger, and scholar who integrates popular and jazz idioms with classical techniques and repertoire to create a sophisticated contemporary style of cross-genre, or even post-genre music.

After years of composing complex new music, he embraced his personal history and indigenous musical culture and fused them with his classical background and training.

His work includes numerous jazz arrangements, string quartets, woodwind and brass quintets, mixed ensembles, pieces for string orchestra, and several piano works.

His latest endeavor, Rezurrektion (String Quartets), is a renaissance of musical classics, remembered reimaginations transmogrified into past genre string quarters, eclectic sites of colliding recompositions, simultaneous styles, and kaleidoscope counterpoint, resulting innate vitality with revived verve and making what’s old new once more again.

1. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
2. G Minor Quintet
3. A Minor Sonata
4. F Major Sonata
5. C Major Sonata
6. Rent / Holberg
7. Black Beauty
8. Porgy and Bess

The album opens on the of veritably glistening, ornate and yet playfully robust Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the, believe it or not, foot-tapper G Minor Quintet and they are backed by the sterner, yet nonetheless prosperous A Minor Sonata and the aching balladry yearn found within F Major Sonata.

Along next is the playfully perky, joyous and brilliantly-scored C Major Sonata and that is in turn backed by the opulent Rent / Holberg, the album rounding out on the dutifully forthright Black Beauty, closing on the all-embracing Porgy and Bess.

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