Piano Factory 15: Micro and Macro

Here are nine renditions of ten Holt’s most famous opus. Built from multi-measure cells which can be repeated ad lib, this may be the longest work constructed on an unbroken stream of quintuplets. It is also a potent dose of B-flat minor.

Used Bin Troll Tweets F.

A distinct nostalgic voice whose Concerto No. 4 idly reconstructs a lost Russia.

Mostly Symphonies 6. / Naxos Bowl 2.

Melding hymn tunes, microtones, complex canons and continuous glissandos, Coates’ riveting symphonies take the Ives highway but go off-road after Ligeti’s exit…

Mostly Symphonies 3.

“…[W]e still sorely missed the symphonie that Rameau never wrote. And so we created it ourselves.”

Distinctive Americans: Cage, Rochberg, Wolpe, et al.

Folks who sample HPSCHD and like it (some Cage fans will be flabbergasted) might be recalling personal involvement in a comparable event.

American Symphonies on Naxos and First Edition

Whether one looks forward or back, Naxos and First Edition Music are two labels making significant contributions to American symphonic music.

Archeological Dig

Waste not, want not. I wrote these reviews for TAS about four years ago…