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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Organ performances are just as much about the organ being played upon as the music being played and the performer playing it. On this CD all come together for a most satisfying result. A purpose of this disc is to demonstrate the versatility of the Royal Albert Hall organ, restored in 2003-2004. Each work was selected to demonstrate specific ...
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 ...
For anyone unfamiliar with the violin sonatas of William Bolcom, or who has heard them but do not own this particular recording, stop what you're doing and buy it. Violinist Renata Artman Knific and pianist Lori Sims, both faculty members at Western Michigan University, offer an astonishingly commanding and engaging performance of the Second, ...
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