From the evidence of the music on this disc, some of which brought its composer the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music, Paul Moravec has managed the neat trick of writing music that is conservative in style without affiliating itself with any specific style of the past. Although lyrical, it is too carefully controlled to be called Romantic in spirit. ...
Maria Bachmann distinguished herself with two very fine recitals on BMG's Catalyst label back in the 1990s, but was little heard from on record in years afterward. She has kept busy in the meantime with her Trio Solisti, as director of the Telluride Musicfest, and in other pursuits; a trio Bachmann commissioned from composer Paul Moravec for Trio ...
The cover art of this album, with posters of the well-coiffed Lark Quartet on a wall bearing the title "Klap Ur Handz," written graffiti-style, fairly screams the radical chic of the 1960s. The music inside, however, is better than that. Like other chamber groups in the line descended from San Francisco's Kronos Quartet, the women of the Lark ...
Matt Haimovitz has devoted a large part of his distinguished career to playing and promoting the music of his time, often by young composers. On this disc, he turns to music by three older American composers, all of whom have won the Pulitzer Prize. Two of the pieces are based on literary texts. Ned Rorem's After Reading Shakespeare (1980) is a ...
Maria Bachmann's commitment to performing modern music has been central to her career, and her polished recordings for RCA clearly benefit contemporary American composers, whose violin sonatas and other works she admires and vigorously champions. John Corigliano's dramatic Sonata for violin and piano would be obscure but for Bachmann's energetic ...
The music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec is somewhat difficult to pin down and categorize, a fact that no doubt delights Moravec. His work does not fit neatly into any one category: too controlled and virtuosic to be strictly neo-romantic, and too tonal and lyrical to be considered avant-garde. Comparisons to previous composers ...
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