Some would suspect this disc to be an abomination in the eyes of God and man; it is actually a pleasant little disc of what used to be called encores. You remember encores: the technically virtuosic but musically lightweight works that a performer would play after the real recital was over. Now those days are gone. Nowadays what used to be encores ...
From the time he was a teenager, William Bolcom had dreamed of setting William Blake's epic poem collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience to music -- and eventually he did. But it took over a quarter of a century, from the first completed songs at age 17 in 1956 until 1982 when, as a tenured professor at the University of Michigan at Ann ...
A member of Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road Ensemble and an acclaimed solo performer in his own right, virtuoso pianist Joel Fan surveys the international keyboard repertoire in this 2006 collection and reveals his versatility in many styles, often with bravura playing. World Keys, Fan's debut album on Reference, is a survey of musical approaches ...
Although Bolcom has not composed as extensively for the cello as he has for the violin, the works for cello are similar in that they provide a representative cross section of the composer's styles and approaches to the instrument. Ranging in date from 1961's Décalage to the Suite No. 1 in C minor for Solo Violoncello, listeners are treated to a ...
This 2005 survey of William Bolcom's music for two pianos covers a fairly wide period, since it ranges from the short Interlude of 1963 to arrangements made in 1994. All the same, Bolcom's characteristic amalgamations of ragtime, popular songs and dances, avant-garde keyboard techniques, and Classical forms are apparent throughout the collection, ...
Afro-Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman (the unusual name is a mixture of her maiden name and her husband's last name) continues with this, her third album, to show herself as a distinctive talent rather than a novelty. The trio of composers included on Surprise may seem unusual (and Brueggergosman's early champion William Bolcom must be ...
Admired as a versatile master of large forms such as operas, concertos, and symphonies, William Bolcom is more widely appreciated for his engaging performances and for his numerous songs and song cycles, composed over four decades. Bolcom's fascination with poetry of all stripes -- from William Blake's mystical visions to the wry lyrics of Arnold ...
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