With an album title like American Music of the Twentieth Century and pictures of New York on the front cover, it's at least a little ironic that two-thirds of the works on this album are played by orchestras in the U.K. No matter. The CD features magnificent performances of five pieces by three of the most recognized American composers: Samuel ...
Tobias Picker is one of only a few contemporary composers to compose true symphonies, without taking shortcuts or rationalizing loose forms as symphonic through an "anything goes" attitude. His carefully structured Symphony No. 2, "Aussöhnung," is in seven contrasting movements that follow a clear trajectory from dynamic conflict to sublime ...
Soprano Judith Bettina and pianist James Goldsworthy have assembled an eclectic selection of songs by six American composers written in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries and ranging from the serialism of Milton Babbitt and Mel Powell to the neo-Romanticism of Tobias Picker. Bettina's voice is warm, full, secure, and pure-toned; ...
Tobias Picker is one of only a few contemporary composers to compose true symphonies without taking shortcuts or rationalizing loose forms as symphonic through an "anything goes" attitude. His carefully structured Symphony No. 2, "Aussöhnung," is in seven contrasting movements that follow a clear trajectory from dynamic conflict to sublime ...
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