Recorded over 20 years and featuring a fairly random selection of works, this two-disc set of the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos will still be welcome by fans of the composer for one simple reason: it contains performances by pianist Cristina Ortiz, perhaps the best pianist ever to tackle his music. Along with an exciting performance of the Fantasia ...
The program notes for this CD begin with a quote from British visual artist Michael Craig Martin: "Minimalism presents the viewer with objects of charged neutrality...objects that are without any hierarchy of interest...objects that reveal everything about themselves, but little about the artist." If that can be taken as an adequate definition of ...
Versatile in a wide variety of genres, skilled in orchestration, and extroverted in outlook, Michael Torke is one of the most accessible and appealing composers of the postmodern generation. Yet his facility and readiness to adapt to expectations sometimes make his music seem derivative and forced, and Three presents some of Torke's most ...
MGV (Musique à Grand Vitesse) was written to commission for the opening of the TVG high-speed train line at Lille, which runs to Paris, but it doesn't play out like a typical "commission." MGV is grand, relentlessly rhythmic, and exciting music that rushes onward for a full half hour with only a couple of relatively quiet passages to allow for the ...
Ingenuity and facility are the boon and bane of Michael Torke's talents, and both are intertwined in the works covered on this 2004 box set from Ecstatic Records. For all his brilliant orchestration, original formal concepts, and occasionally daring uses of styles, there seem to be opposing qualities of commercial slickness, clever game-playing, ...
Bachianas brasileiras was among the many untranslatable forms Heitor Villa-Lobos created. In essence, they fuse the techniques and textures of J.S. Bach with music from Villa-Lobos' native Brazil. Nine such suites in total incorporate a vast diversity of instrumental and vocal combinations. This album features excerpts from five of these suites, ...
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