The Argentine-Israeli-Russian composer Osvaldo Golijov outdoes himself with Ayre, a collection of...well, of what, exactly? Arrangements of Mediterranean folk songs? They're more than that; the Sephardic, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic songs included here are thoroughly reworked and even made to overlap. Some are traditional, some are contemporary. ...
This collection of chamber works by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov (born in 1960) is centered around performances by the St. Lawrence String Quartet. This is full-blooded, first-rate contemporary chamber music that emphasizes emotion and rich textures over the thorniness and preoccupation with technique that has been the dominant factor in New ...
On his Piano Quartet Trilogy, George Tsontakis reclaims the musical legacy of the early twentieth century and reshapes that period's rhetoric for contemporary ears. The influence of several composers is clear in the Piano Quartet No. 2 (1999), Eclipse (1995), and the two Bagatelles (1996 and 1997), most noticeably Bartók and Schoenberg, but to a ...
Before becoming one of the most successful orchestral composers of the early twenty first century, Jennifer Higdon studied as a flutist and found an audience through her compositions for that instrument. It's not surprising, then, to find that it is central to this 2008 album from Koch of Higdon's chamber music, and that her work from over two ...
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