Helen Chang Haertzen, Denis Evstuhin, Silver Ainomäe & Oleg Levin - American Avenues (2019)

In the 1930s an international chain reaction of disparate elements led to a creative collision in the U.S.A growing sense of the AMERICAN in American music burst into full flower as Vienna met Hollywood and classical met jazz. This album celebrates this amazing development in American music. Growing up in the Boston area, Helen Chang Haertzen studied under Bo Youp Hwang and Roman Totenberg. She attended Philadelphia s Curtis Institute, the Salzburg Mozarteum and the San Francisco Conservatory. Her principal teachers also included Szymon Goldberg, Felix Galimir, Ruggiero Ricci and Camilla Wicks. Haertzen was a prizewinner of the Karol Lipinski-Wieniawski Competition in Poland. In 2017, the Minnesota State Arts Board awarded her the Artist Initiative Grant. She is joined on this release by Denis Evstuhin, Silver Ainomae, and Oleg Levin.

Tracklist:
1. Helen Chang Haertzen & Denis Evstuhin – Preludes (Arr. J. Heifetz): No. 1, Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (01:49)
2. Helen Chang Haertzen & Denis Evstuhin – Preludes (Arr. J. Heifetz): No. 2, Andante con moto e poco rubato (03:41)
3. Helen Chang Haertzen & Denis Evstuhin – Preludes (Arr. J. Heifetz): No. 3, Agitato (01:30)
4. Helen Chang Haertzen & Denis Evstuhin – Deep River (Arr. J. Heifetz) (02:20)
5. Helen Chang Haertzen & Denis Evstuhin – It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess") [Arr. for Violin & Piano] (02:51)
6. Helen Chang Haertzen, Silver Ainomae & Denis Evstuhin – Piano Trio: I. Adagio non troppo - Più mosso - Allegro vivace (07:24)
7. Helen Chang Haertzen, Silver Ainomae & Denis Evstuhin – Piano Trio: II. Tempo di marcia (03:30)
8. Helen Chang Haertzen, Silver Ainomae & Denis Evstuhin – Piano Trio: III. Largo - Allegro vivo e molto ritmico (04:50)
9. Helen Chang Haertzen & Oleg Levin – Sure on This Shining Night, Op. 13 No. 3 (Arr. for Violin & Piano) (02:19)
10. Helen Chang Haertzen & Oleg Levin – Day Music (Excerpts): II. Pearls (01:49)
11. Helen Chang Haertzen & Oleg Levin – Day Music (Excerpts): V. Billet doux (00:57)
12. Helen Chang Haertzen & Oleg Levin – Day Music (Excerpts): III. Extreme Leisure or Gallows Revisited (04:15)
13. Helen Chang Haertzen & Oleg Levin – Day Music (Excerpts): IV. Bats (01:49)
14. Helen Chang Haertzen & Oleg Levin – Day Music (Excerpts): VI. Another Ground (03:04)
15. Helen Chang Haertzen & Oleg Levin – Souvenir d'amérique, Op. 17 (Version for Violin & Piano) (05:15)
16. Helen Chang Haertzen & Oleg Levin – Over the Rainbow (From "The Wizard of Oz") [Arr. for Violin & Piano] (03:14)