Frankly, my dear, it's too pretty -- and while Stravinsky's Les Noces is many things, it's not pretty. It's belligerently uncompromising in its abrasive choral writing, it's aggressively brilliant in its glittering score for four pianos and percussion, and it's powerfully propulsive in its driving polyrhythms. But it's not pretty -- and this ...
Angst, Christian Jost's existential opera in German for soloists, choir, chamber ensemble, and film, has been successful in the theater, but on CD it seems to be little more than a long, dismal cantata with a sketchy storyline based on a tragic mountain-climbing accident. Without staging, characters, or action, even of a stylized nature, there is ...
This CD should have strong appeal to listeners who like Ligeti's Lux aeterna, the work made famous by Stanley Kubrick's use of it in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the centerpiece of this album. While the other pieces included, by Ligeti and Dutch composer Robert Heppener, don't sound just like the Lux aeterna, they inhabit similar soundworlds and ...
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