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Phoenix USA |
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140 |
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Hugh Wolff |
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Reviews
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Kernis's Second Symphony seethes and bellows, seemingly driven by the Furies... That second movement broods and consoles and is most beautifully and naturally paced... It is a most moving discovery and one I urge you to share...
It is a relief after such vehement and splenetic music to encounter Kernis's most famous piece. This is the middle movement of his First String Quartet transcribed by the composer for full string orchestra...certainly anyone needs to see this out. This writing is gentle, yielding, supplicatory and emphatic yet never hectoring...
Lastly there is the catastrophic and chasmal fury of Invisible Mosaic III. Pumping iterative Stravinskian writing links with seismic upheavals from the percussion and a Manichean whiplash that recalls Ligeti, Henze and Mennin...
A fine collection. In fact the place to start your Kernis collection.
Rob Barnett, MusicWeb-International.com
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This is a rerelease of Argo 448 900. Kernis's impressive Symphony No. 2 followed the just as impressive First Quartet as major states by this fine composer. The piece is an impassioned antiwar statement, complete with anguished pathos, fearsome death marches, and a plea for prayerful redemption, though there is no hope in the desolate ending...
Invisible Mosaic III is an elaborate tone poem...[There is] a wealth of detail the composer has built into the score...the work is thoroughly absorbing, its execution is thrilling, and it's a major accomplishment for any composer in his 20s. The sublime Musica Celestis is an arrangement of the slow movement of Kernis's First Quartet...If you missed this important release the first time around, be sure to snap it up now.
Allen Gimbel, American Record Guide
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