American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has become a fixture of American concert halls with his absorbing symphonies and chamber works, Romantic but technically tough-minded. Here the listener gets something different and more intimate: Kernis song cycles that in at least one case are quite personal; all are distinguished by the range of ...
Previously released by Music Masters and Koch International, the performances on this 2007 Naxos compilation are serviceable presentations of several of Igor Stravinsky's short works, worth having because a number of these are fairly obscure pieces, seldom recorded. While the suite from Histoire du Soldat (1918) and the burlesque Renard (1916) are ...
The Music of Elliot Carter, Vol. 4 is an installment in Bridge Records' ongoing series of discs surveying the output of the eminent American composer. This is devoted, except in one instance, to works written at the end of the twentieth century. In 2003, Carter was still actively creating new works, quite an impressive feat as his "Opus 1" ...
It would be difficult to overstate David Starobin's importance in the development of new music for guitar, not only in the U.S., but internationally -- his impressive discography of pieces he commissioned, premiered, or promoted is testimony to that. This engaging collection of music written just before or after the turn of the millennium is the ...
The cover of this album of chamber and orchestral music by Paul Chihara features a collage with a crowd of people, all of whom are Paul Chihara. The image is an apt metaphor for the multiplicity of styles Chihara incorporates in his music. Ain't No Sunshine, for string trio, is loosely based on the Bill Withers ballad "Ain't No Sunshine When She's ...
Since 1921, the American Academy in Rome -- founded in 1894 and chartered by an act of the United States Congress in 1905 -- has offered an annual fellowship and two residencies to American composers to live and study in Rome for one year. By the time Bridge's four-CD compilation Americans in Rome is offered, 124 such positions have been offered ...
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