Covering the most fertile decades of the avant-garde movement in the United States, American String Quartets, 1950-1970 is a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in this concentrated genre. Broadly divided, these quartets represent either the full-flowering of post-Webern serialism or the more esoteric, philosophical conceptions of ...
Lydia Kavina, the grand-niece of Leon Theremin, is the theremin's leading virtuoso, and she has broadly expanded its repertoire with commissions from a variety of composers. In this, her second solo album, she plays three miniatures for multiple theremins, suites from two film scores, a suite from an opera, and one newly composed work. Most of the ...
Christian Wolff was once the baby of the New York School, only 19 when he cast his lot with John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Earle Brown; in 2008, he is the last man standing. Solo piano music is central to Wolff's output, and on Neos' Christian Wolff: Piano Pieces, German pianist Sabine Liebner performs a nice cross section of his efforts in this ...
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