
In 2020 harpist Yolanda Kondonassis asked each of the composers featured in this collection to consider writing a short solo harp piece that expresses “a
A little more than 20 years ago a record label called Cala released a series of discs that featured various single-instrument ensembles–violins, violas, horns, trombones–with
Contemporary orchestral music recordings don’t get much better than this. Aaron Jay Kernis was lucky in that the music on which his current reputation rests
As I have noted in connection with other collections of contemporary music, the problem with programs such as this is that they tend to consist
The Rodney Dangerfield of instruments, the accordion gets no respect. But that may change as its journey from the polka hall to the concert hall
This is a disc full of Aaron Jay Kernis’ “arrangements” rather than new compositions: a version of his English horn Concerto with a revamped solo