20th Century Baroque

20th Century Baroque

20th Century Baroque

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Performer: Manuel de Falla
Performer: Elliott Carter
Performer: Ilja Hurnik
Performer: Dominick Argento
Performer: Larry Combs
Orchestra: Barbara Haffner
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-08-24
Music Label: Cedille
Soundtracks:

Con: I. Allegro - Larry Combs
Con: II. Lento (Giubiloso Ed Energico) - Larry Combs
Con: III. Vivace (Flessibile, Scherzando) - Larry Combs
Son: I. Risoluto - Rembrandt Chamber Players
Son: II. Lento - Rembrandt Chamber Players
Son: III. Allegro - Rembrandt Chamber Players
Son Da Camera: I. Allegretto - Rembrandt Chamber Players
Son Da Camera: II. Quasi Marcia Funebre - Rembrandt Chamber Players
Son Da Camera: III. Allegretto Innocente - Rembrandt Chamber Players
Son Da Camera: IV. Prestissimo - Rembrandt Chamber Players
Six Elizabethan Songs: Winter - Patrice Michaels Bedi
Six Elizabethan Songs: Dirge - Patrice Michaels Bedi
Six Elizabethan Songs: Sleep - Patrice Michaels Bedi
Six Elizabethan Songs: Spring - Patrice Michaels Bedi
Six Elizabethan Songs: Diaphenia - Patrice Michaels Bedi
Six Elizabethan Songs: Hymn - Patrice Michaels Bedi

Music reviews of 20th Century Baroque

Music Review: Wonderful Playing
Rating: 5 Stars

This is a very clear sounding recording. I attribute that to the players. Harpsichord is not the easiest instrument to listen to, even live, as it is very 'busy' sounding in character. So, along with the beautiful music, the players really made this recording worth listening to.

Description of 20th Century Baroque

The Rembrandt Chamber Players perform 20th-century works for Baroque ensemble and harpsichord on their debut recording with Cedille Records. They perform four exemplary works from different genres of the modern harpsichord repertoire, including two by living American composers. Minnesota-based Dominick Argento's "Six Elizabethan Songs" are sophisticated and varied setting of 17th-century English texts (reprinted in the program notes). "In the pantheon of American composers Argento occupies a distinct individual category, outside any certifiable modernistic trend or technical idiom," writes Nicolas Slonimsky in Baker's Biographical Dictionary (1992). "He writes melodious music in a harmonious treatment . . . Audiences, and an increasing number of sophisticated critics, profess their admiration for his unusual songfulness." Elliott Carter's adventurous Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and Harpsichord, with its delicate dissonances, explores new harpsichord tone colors. As noted in The New Oxford Companion to Music (1983), "the [harpsichord's] expressive peculiarities fit the views of some of those who desire to avoid artificial inflection and who seek the level surface, so to speak, of its limited dynamic range." Czech pianist and composer Ilja Hurnik's music is "marked with impressionistic flavor, while retaining a classical format" (Baker's, 1992). His Sonata da camera recalls the period that spawned the instrumentation assembled for this recording. Manuel de Falla's Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello, a seminal work commissioned by Polish harpsichord virtuoso Wanda Landowska, is one of the most important contributions to the harpsichord's revival. Spanish-music authority Gilbert Chase considers it Falla's masterpiece and the most complete embodiment of the "eternal essence" of Spain. "The keyboard style ... reveals in the classical lucidity of its writing a certain kinship with Domenico Scarlatti" (Baker's, 1992). The Rembrandt ensemble has performed all the works in concert except the Falla: they fell that the concerto's dense textures obscure the harpsichord in live performance, whereas a more even balance is achievable in the recording studio.

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