It's intriguing that the music of Christopher Rouse, the great champion of neo-Romanticism in the late 1980s, often took a turn toward the atonal in his last years. Nevertheless, even the Concerto for Orchestra of 2008, which Rouse says incorporates elements of 12-tone composition, remains recognizably music of the same composer, with the propulsive rhythms, busy orchestral textures, and unabashed, rather mystical melodicism in the slower passages that his music has always had. Another feature of Rouse's aesthetic is his ...
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It's intriguing that the music of Christopher Rouse, the great champion of neo-Romanticism in the late 1980s, often took a turn toward the atonal in his last years. Nevertheless, even the Concerto for Orchestra of 2008, which Rouse says incorporates elements of 12-tone composition, remains recognizably music of the same composer, with the propulsive rhythms, busy orchestral textures, and unabashed, rather mystical melodicism in the slower passages that his music has always had. Another feature of Rouse's aesthetic is his ability to integrate quite complex structures with a direct appeal to audiences, fully on display here in the Symphony No. 5. True to its number, it refers to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67. Rouse opens with an unmistakable nod to the short-short-short long motif of that symphony's opening movement as if to show clearly what's going on, but the other references are more fragmentary, and even novice listeners will have fun trying to catch them. The entr'acte, Supplica, is...
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