Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Live)

Jennifer Higdon has a very engaging musical voice and a wonderful way of writing for the orchestra. The Viola Concerto of 2014, superbly played by Roberto Díaz, sings and soars, and Higdon maintains the solo-orchestra balance with consummate skill. The Oboe Concerto, from 2005 and written in a single span, plays to the instrument’s dual abilities to weave lyrical lines while also chattering with great personality. James Button, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s principal, is in fine form. *All Things Majestic* is a four-movement landscape portrait of Wyoming’s Grand Tetons. It’s highly evocative and, again, orchestrally magnificent and beautifully played.