The seventh volume in Bridge's comprehensive series of the music of Elliott Carter presents four important concertos, composed in as many years by the dean of American composers, who appears vigorous, sharp-witted, and abundantly creative in his ninth decade. Dialogues for piano and chamber orchestra (2003), performed with crisp articulation and ...
For Oliver Knussen's 50th birthday, the London Sinfonietta collected 13 musical tributes to the composer/conductor from among the many composers with whom he had worked. The results are these brief pieces, all between one and five minutes long, scored for solo instrument, small ensemble, or full orchestra by some of the world's most famous ...
Swiss-Austrian composer Beat Furrer is one of the most frequently performed European composers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His is stylistically an unabashed modernist, and he founded and directs Klangforum Wein, one of the premier European ensembles dedicated to cutting-edge new work. This disc offers a diverse sample ...
Danish composer Per Nørgård's music for piano is refreshingly free from dogmatic allegiance to a particular system or school of thought. It feels organically imagined and develops according to its own logic rather than any conventional expectations. Nørgård is not afraid of repetition and the use of extended ostinatos, but he is clearly not a ...
Anyone perplexed by Harrison Birtwistle's dense and often daunting orchestral music may want to try out this disc of his more transparent piano works for clarification of the methods he employs, his varied styles, and his development over five productive decades. From the early Oockooing Bird (ca. 1950) to the Saraband: The King's Farewell (2001), ...
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