I love everything about this release. The performances are top-notch, and the theme is focused. Yet within that focus is an amazing variety of compositions and styles. This recording is with the new Quattro Mani duo piano team (Steven Beck replaced retiring Alice Rybak in 2013). Though the Susan Grace/Steven Beck chemistry is slightly different […]
Fred Lerdahl
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Fred Lerdahl Vol. 4 – Spirals in Form
Volume Four in Bridge Records’ ongoing Fred Lerdahl series features works from different stages of the composer’s career. And what an interesting career its been! Wake, a setting of Finnegan’s Wake, was Lerdahl’s first major composition. Finished in 1968, it’s Lerdahl at his most atonal. Written (and performed here) by Bethany Beardslee, Wake is a […]