Beth Anderson: Swales and Angels (2004)

Swales and Angels collects together some chamber works from Kentucky-born, Brooklyn-based composer Beth Anderson. This is the first full-length disc devoted to Anderson's work in primarily instrumental forms; her electronic pieces of the 1970s are contained in a separate collection, Peachy Keen O. The essential difference between the two is that Swales and Angels contains music which, on the surface, is easy to digest, non-experimental in style, and attractive to the ear -- not quite "pretty" as critic Kyle Gann termed it. ... Read More

Swales and Angels collects together some chamber works from Kentucky-born, Brooklyn-based composer Beth Anderson. This is the first full-length disc devoted to Anderson's work in primarily instrumental forms; her electronic pieces of the 1970s are contained in a separate collection, Peachy Keen O. The essential difference between the two is that Swales and Angels contains music which, on the surface, is easy to digest, non-experimental in style, and attractive to the ear -- not quite "pretty" as critic Kyle Gann termed it. But it is also not backward-looking or based in Western traditional forms -- Anderson's Swales are fresh and open, reminiscent of a rural landscape, a nice cold drink of water, or a small pond with some cattails and Queen Anne's lace growing around it. Formally, the music unfolds in a manner rather like the way things unfold in nature, along an unpredictable path, but with familiar elements on the way.Swales and Angels is easily the most satisfying recording of contemporary music... Read Less

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