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 |  |  | | | | Track Listings | | | 1 Negru Voda (Rossi) | 11:24 | | 2 On Mount Pleasant (Farmer) | 7:22 | | 3 Tracer (Briggs) | 10:33 | | Celestial Navigation (Tomaro) | | | 4 I Andante con moto | 4:46 | | 5 II Allegro vivace | 5:50 | | Piano Concerto No.2 (McKinley) | | | 6 I Tumultuosa mente | 7:53 | | 7 II Prestisimo | 3:39 | | 8 III Largo e triste | 7:44 | | Total time: | 59:56 |
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| | | | | | MMC New Century: Volume VI | | | Our Price: $9.95  | | | | Item Number: MMC2028 | | Audio Format: DDD | | Genres: Concerto\Orchestral | | | | Description | | Excerpts from the Liner Notes (by William Zagorski)
This collection contains the work of five living composers who happen to be American-the oldest born in 1938; the youngest in 1953. All are accomplished instrumentalists who represent a variety of backgrounds encompassing the worlds of jazz and its popular offshoots (as well as "serious" music). Each has earned recognition and critical acclaim from musical peers as well as audiences. Each is, in his own way, a synthesizer-taking the various "isms" of our age and using them as expressive tools rather than as ends in themselves. Their greatest commonality lies in their mastery of the basic elements of music. Each balances the spontaneous outpouring of inspiration with the necessary shaping of that inspiration into an intelligible musical form. Their greatest differences lie in their individual reassessment and deployment of those same elements, and the highly personal journeys through musical space and time each provides us. Each gives us the universe as refracted through a unique sensibility. |
| | | | | | | Reviews | | "As with the previous programs in this worthy series, this disc offers attractive new American music, well recorded and ably performed by a crackerjack East European orchestra."
"[A]n immersion in atmosphere and color permeates just about every bar of this music, from the bright percussion and bold fanfares of Robert Tomaro's Celestial Navigation to the 'crazed, maniacal tango' (in the words of pianist Jeffrey Jacob) of Robert Briggs's Tracer."
-American Record Guide: Jack Sullivan
"These sorts of new-music compendia can be problematic: extremely differing levels of innate creative quality and production values, not to mention competing aesthetics, can combine to create an unholy brew. Fortunately this MMC release avoids these pitfalls and makes a persuasive case for this set of composers, most of whom (excepting McKinley) are not as well known as this music indicates they should be."
"Indeed. on completion of my first listening to this disc, I found myself thinking that this program would make a very good one for an orchestra wanting to present contemporary music that would not scare away its audience."
-FANFARE: Robert Carl |
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