Michael Colgrass: Side By Side

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Rose and the BMOP do sterling service to the composer, and the recording quality is excellent as always — Fanfare, May/June 2020

Release Date: 15th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: BMOP1064
Label: Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)
Length: 58 minutes

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Colgrass: Letter from Mozart

Work length14:41

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Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose, Andrew Clark

Colgrass: Side by Side

Work length24:05

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Joanne Kong
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose

Colgrass: The Schubert Birds

Work length19:34

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Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose

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Composer Michael Colgrass is well known equally on both sides of the Canadian-American border. He grew up a percussionist but soon added composition to his repertoire, eventually becoming a full-time composer, including winning the 1978 Pulitzer Prize. This release collects three of Colgrass's orchestral works. Letter from Mozart takes an imaginary theme from Mozart, reworked in a modern style. Side by Side may be the only concerto of its kind: one performer (the inimitable Joanne Kong on this disc) playing harpsichord and piano simultaneously. Colgrass draws on his roots as a jazz drummer and a classical composer in The Schubert Birds, an inventive mash-up of genre and style inspired by Franz Schubert and Charlie 'Bird' Parker.

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May/June 2020

Rose and the BMOP do sterling service to the composer, and the recording quality is excellent as always

Michael Colgrass: Side By Side

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