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It’s hard to work up much enthusiasm for yet another brass quintet disc, especially since most of them consist of things like transcriptions of the
It’s unusual for a program of American music to feature a work composed in the 18th century, but the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s
Joan Tower’s Made in America resulted from a commissioning project involving 65 smaller-budget American orchestras; it was designed to challenge without intimidation, and to be
Joan Tower’s chamber music has much the same emotional intensity and gestural ferocity as her orchestral works. Her primarily angular harmonic language, with its predominantly
Eighth Blackbird is an amazingly talented sextet consisting of flutes, clarinets, violin/viola, cello, percussion, and piano. The sound this highly versatile ensemble makes is extraordinary,
Alexandra Hawley and Jeffrey McFadden offer a wonderfully eclectic program for flute and guitar. If you haven’t heard this combination of instruments before, on the
It should be enough to say that Joan Tower is one of the world’s most successful, busiest, and respected composers–but the producers of this disc,
