In reference to Symphony #3: "The Earth, the Wind, and the Fire":

-DANIEL LEWIS, Guest Conductor, Los Angeles Philharmonic

-GENE PARRISH, Music Director, 91.5 KUSC FM

"There is a Brucknerian quality to much of Chesne's Symphony No. 3, a slow, patient building of monumental materials, an awed, religious feeling for nature... The recording itself is an impressive job...sensitively handled, the orchestral fabric is seamless... Symphony #3 hearkens back to Sibelius. It has the same spacious and pensive qualities, the flickering, scurrying strings, the granitic, pyramidal brass, the distant woodwinds. But there is also a more meditative and minimalistic side to this music, a kind of Eastern simplicity and calm at peace with the natural world... The finale of Chesne's Symphony #3 achieves a visceral fury. The rugged and biting string work especially bristles."

-TIMOTHY MANGAN, Contributing Reviewer, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

 

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