When this release was presented to me for review, I politely declined Spektral Quartet’s invitation to determine my own playlist using a deck of cards,
It’s hard to believe that this recording is nearly 20
This disc’s title, “Scenes from a New Music Séance”, refers to a short series of daylong concerts presented in San Francisco by Other Minds that
This collection embraces some of the most craggy, uncompromising, and frankly charmless American piano music from the 20th century’s first half, played with concentrated authority
The works of Ruth Crawford (Seeger) continue to gain recognition as an important contribution to the evolution of American music in the first half of