Adams / Andres / Burhans / Acme - Thrive on Routine - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The composer and pianist Eduard Franck was from an art-loving Breslau banker's family and revealed his musical gifts at an early age. Later Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy became his teacher and even performed together with him. His friendly acquaintance with Mendelssohn and kindred musical spirits like Robert Schumann and William Sterndale Bennett showed Eduard Franck the way. However, he increasingly emerged from the shadow of his models, and today he is honored less as a follower and more as a mediator between the generations who in his time anticipated many a new development by great masters such as Brahms and Bruckner. Franck's Piano Concerto in D minor op. 13, his first broadly dimensioned orchestral work, generates it's appeal above with it's imposing and stormy main themes and brilliantly virtuosic broken chords in the piano part. The second concerto recorded here was previously available only in a manuscript of the score and a piano reduction from 1879. The virtuosic interplay between the orchestra and the piano, as heard on the present recording premiere, in particular makes us sit up and take notice.

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Everything That Rises is a uniquely beautiful and magical hour of music for string quartet, performed by the celebrated, award-winning JACK Quartet. The composer writes about the piece InchEach musician is a soloist, playing throughout. Time floats and the lines spin out, always rising, in acoustically perfect intervals that grow progressively smaller as they spiral upward... until the music dissolves into the soft noise of the bows, sighing.Inch Inch'Everything That Rises' is art without artifice, and it's beauty transports the listener.Inch (New York Classical Review) Inch'Everything That RisesInch finds Mr. Adams exploring dissonance and just-intonation tuning, in the gentlest of ways.Inch (The New York Times) InchJACK Quartet, superheroes of the new music world.Inch (Boston Globe) John Luther Adams, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music and the 2015 Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, has been described by The New Yorker's Alex Ross as Inchone of the most original musical thinkers of the new century.Inch Adams, whose music is deeply rooted in the natural world, has worked with many prominent performers and venues.