Charles Wuorinen, Vol. 3
Alphabetical Ashbery, Fourth Piano Sonata & It Happens Like This
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano), Sharon Harms (soprano), Laura Mercado-Wright (alto), Steven Brennfleck (tenor), Douglas Williams (bass)
loadbang, The Group for Contemporary Music, Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen, Vol. 3
Alphabetical Ashbery, Fourth Piano Sonata & It Happens Like This
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano), Sharon Harms (soprano), Laura Mercado-Wright (alto), Steven Brennfleck (tenor), Douglas Williams (bass)
loadbang, The Group for Contemporary Music, Charles Wuorinen
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Charles Wuorinen has always been comfortable in a range of genres, embracing the traditional forms of opera, symphony, or string quartet as readily as he accepts the challenge unusual combinations that have become a second norm since Pierrot Lunaire more than a century ago. Nor has any particular focus dominated any period of his nearly sixty-year career: his eight symphonies span more than fifty years, his piano concertos forty. He has written everything from piano bagatelles to ballets, a Mass setting, eight symphonies, and three operas. This album features the latest and most traditionally structured of Wuorinen’s four piano sonatas—“sonata” being a term the composer has used on a number of occasions otherwise—as well as two vocal works setting poetry of two of our greatest modernist poets, John Ashbery and James Tate.
Contents and tracklist
- Loadbang
- Sharon Harms, Laura Mercado-Wright, Steven Brennfleck, Douglas Williams
- The Group for Contemporary Music
- Charles Wuorinen