From the evidence of the music on this disc, some of which brought its composer the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music, Paul Moravec has managed the neat trick of writing music that is conservative in style without affiliating itself with any specific style of the past. Although lyrical, it is too carefully controlled to be called Romantic in spirit. ...
Maria Bachmann distinguished herself with two very fine recitals on BMG's Catalyst label back in the 1990s, but was little heard from on record in years afterward. She has kept busy in the meantime with her Trio Solisti, as director of the Telluride Musicfest, and in other pursuits; a trio Bachmann commissioned from composer Paul Moravec for Trio ...
This compact disc on the Argo label (the subsidiary imprint of Decca Records of England that specializes in less familiar music) is an outstanding introduction to the music of Lou Harrison (b. 1917), and was issued to observe his eightieth birthday in 1997.Every work on the disc is for a different ensemble, though all use members of the California ...
Maria Bachmann's commitment to performing modern music has been central to her career, and her polished recordings for RCA clearly benefit contemporary American composers, whose violin sonatas and other works she admires and vigorously champions. John Corigliano's dramatic Sonata for violin and piano would be obscure but for Bachmann's energetic ...
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