This album by the innovative chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound features newly written works, contemporary classics, and transcriptions of Medieval and Renaissance vocal music. With 21 members, the mixed group of winds, brass, percussion, keyboards, strings, and voices would qualify as a chamber orchestra, but most of the pieces deploy smaller ...
From its first notes, it's clear that Van Gogh is the work of a Bang On A Can composer -- the rhythmically irregular, percussive ostinatos, the orchestration, the harmonic and melodic language. The distinctive Bang On A Can sound is hugely influenced by the music of Louis Andriessen, but many of the works of Gordon, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang ...
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