The MDG label prides itself on maintaining the "natural acoustics" of the concert halls in which recordings are made, and shy away from modifying the sound with added reverberation and the like. Listening to this disc makes you wish that more labels would follow suit, especially for small chamber works like these. The resulting sound is very much ...
When Krzysztof Penderecki famously adopted tonality around 1980, composers everywhere noted that the tide had turned against the avant-garde. Penderecki's apparent volte face was viewed by some as a necessary change for the betterment of contemporary music, and by others as a betrayal of modernist principles. While debate may continue over the ...
For all the hand-wringing over the decline of classical music in the U.S., that country's publicly promient contemporary composers are increasingly gaining hearings around the world. This disc could serve anyone as an introduction to the music of John Corigliano, whose sympathetic treatment of the violin may derive from his status the son of a ...
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