Books, CDs & DVDs
CDs from Boston Modern Orchestra Project
- Item Number
- 113
- Estimated Value
- 37 USD
- Opening Bid
- 15 USD
Item Description
Includes 2 CDs: Michael Gandolfi's "Y2K Compliant" and Derek Bermel's "Voices".
Michael Gandolfi's music has some of the rigor of the mid-20th-century atonalists, but it also draws on the richness of melody and timbre prized by the neo-Romantics. The three scores included here - all played with warmth and precision - offer a good overview of Mr. Gandolfi's sensibility. "Points of Departure" (1988), an essay on the beauty of angularity, transforms themes couched in the clichés of academic serialism - jumpy, zigzagging lines - into likable characters and musical drama. Mr. Gandolfi has a great ear for effect: the glissandos and arching violin lines in the third movement of "Point of Departure" are hard to resist, and they turn up again at the start of "Themes From a Midsummer Night" (2001), a light-spirited 10-movement suite drawn from an incidental score Mr. Gandolfi wrote for a production of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream." Allan Kozinn Selected for The New York Times 2008 Holiday Gift Guide --The New York Times
Voices is a compilation of three orchestral works and one solo piece by Derek Bermel. Seductively called his spectral potion, Elixir reflects Bermel's influences as varied as John Lennon, Charles Ives, and the Isley Brothers. Thracian Echoes embraces the soulful harmonies of traditional Bulgarian melodies whereas Dust Dances is a translation of an African gyil music session into orchestral idioms. In Voices, Bermel himself performs the brilliantly written concerto for clarinet with impressive virtuosity. Thanks to the infectious charisma of Gil Rose and his musicians, this recording brings to life the eclecticism and verve that defines the music of Derek Bermel.
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