The Argentine-Israeli-Russian composer Osvaldo Golijov outdoes himself with Ayre, a collection of...well, of what, exactly? Arrangements of Mediterranean folk songs? They're more than that; the Sephardic, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic songs included here are thoroughly reworked and even made to overlap. Some are traditional, some are contemporary. ...
This collection of chamber works by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov (born in 1960) is centered around performances by the St. Lawrence String Quartet. This is full-blooded, first-rate contemporary chamber music that emphasizes emotion and rich textures over the thorniness and preoccupation with technique that has been the dominant factor in New ...
Originally released by Koch, these recordings of key works in Arnold Schoenberg's oeuvre are now part of Naxos' Robert Craft Collection, a series of reissues that reaffirms the conductor's unflagging devotion to modern music, even if the performances and recording quality periodically flag. The pieces predate Schoenberg's discovery of the twelve ...
Except for his string quartets, Philip Glass' chamber music for non-electronic instruments is rarely performed, so it's a pleasure to have two substantial examples of his music for chamber ensembles on this Orange Mountain release. The first volume of Glass' Theater Music includes incidental music he wrote for David Henry Hwang's The Sound of a ...
Composer and pianist Marc Neikrug wrote Through Roses in 1979 and 1980. The piece could technically be classified as a melodrama, a work in which spoken word, usually poetry, is accompanied by music, but Through Roses transcends that definition and defies easy categorization. It might also be considered music theater, or a monodrama, since the ...
Since 1921, the American Academy in Rome -- founded in 1894 and chartered by an act of the United States Congress in 1905 -- has offered an annual fellowship and two residencies to American composers to live and study in Rome for one year. By the time Bridge's four-CD compilation Americans in Rome is offered, 124 such positions have been offered ...
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