Consisting of recordings made over nine years, Fabián Panisello: A Portrait presents eight compositions by the Argentinean composer, representing not ...
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Consisting of recordings made over nine years, Fabián Panisello: A Portrait presents eight compositions by the Argentinean composer, representing not only works for keyboard, but also chamber, vocal, and orchestral music. A student of Elliott Carter and Brian Ferneyhough, Panisello is a committed avant-garde composer with rather complicated, cerebral methods; yet his music has an undeniable appeal to adventurous listeners, due to its brilliant instrumental colors, lively rhythmic interplay, and coherent rhetoric, which, though often broken up in myriad rapid-fire bits, is consistent and intelligible. In the Trio II (1996), Moods II (2001), and Presencias Transparentes, I and II (1990-1991), Panisello's music is intensely active and energetic, and his language is plainly that of the "maximalist" line of thought, similar in many ways to Ferneyhough's dense, hyperactive pieces. Panisello's feeling for ensemble writing allows him to make this abundance of musical information click, though he is less...
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