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Ananda Goud (mezzo-soprano), Bang On A Can, Barbara Borden (soprano), Bob Becker (percussion), Cheryl Bensman Rowe (soprano), Deborah Redding (violin), Donald Palma (bass), Evan Ziporyn (clarinet), Frances Martin (viola), Garry Kvistad (percussion)
Steve Reich has a remarkable arrangement for a composer in that he is an exclusive artist for Nonesuch and has been so for more than two decades. Back in 1996, when Reich celebrated his 60th birthday, Nonesuch issued a 10-CD box set of "everything" -- all of the works in the Warner Classics vaults that he had recorded, including some new at the ...
Evan Ziporyn is the clarinetist in the Bang on a Can all-stars. This is his first solo clarinet record. It doesn't sound like any other solo clarinet record ever made because we've never heard an approach to the instrument quite like this one. While other great musicians have learned odd fingerings and different modes of breath control when ...
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Andrew Russo (piano), Andrew Russo (synthesizer), Evan Ziporyn (clarinet), Real Quiet, Theo Bleckmann (vocals), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose (conductor)
New York-based composer David Lang was associated with the ensemble Bang on a Can, and the pieces on this album share an orientation toward percussion as well as clear but unconventional use of tonal relationships. The highlight for many will be the first work on the program, Pierced, written in 2007. It's a concerto of sorts, with a trio of cello ...
New music isn't easy, but Bang on a Can member Evan Ziporyn has a very light touch in these four compositions, especially "Drill," which often seems to float on squirming little wiggles of melody, with Ziporyn himself playing bass clarinet. The moods among the four pieces here vary tremendously -- "The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute," for ...
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