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Recordings In Review: New Music by JAY NORDLINGER is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Recordings In Review: New Music about?
Almost every day, new recordings bring new music. I propose to look at five such recordings, and five composers -beginning with Philip Lasser, an American who teaches at Juilliard. In 2002, he wrote Twelve Variations on a Chorale by J. S. Bach. This is a piano work, and it was championed by Simone Dinnerstein. She is Bachbesotted, and so is Lasser. Any musician -I'm tempted to say any person -ought to be Bach-besotted. Lasser has now written a piano concerto for Dinnerstein. The concerto incorporates a Bach chorale. It also has a name, a title: The Circle and the Child. What does that mean? I'll let the composer explain: ''The idea of the circle was inspired by Bach, who understood better than anyone that if abstract music is to have a meaningful structure it can only do this by traveling away from a beginning back to the beginning, through memory. The child represents the repeating cycle of life, the travel from the end of life back to the beginning of life.'' Dinnerstein includes Lasser's concerto on an album called Broadway-Lafayette (Sony Classical 88875032452). The idea, as the album title implies, is that this disc brings together American and French music. Or rather, the dis
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- Author
- JAY NORDLINGER
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)