Kevin Puts: To Touch the Sky; If I Were a Swan; Symphony No. 4 "From Mission San Juan" (2013)

Michigan-raised composer Kevin Puts has been touted as a successor to John Corigliano, as a composer whose music is tonal and accessible, but reflects the values of serious composition. This release of his music by the major Harmonia Mundi USA label should come as welcome news to his supporters, and those curious about his music after his 2012 reception of the Pulitzer Prize for music may find it an attractive sampler (it consists of two separate performances of Puts' music, recorded in different places and different times) ... Read More

Michigan-raised composer Kevin Puts has been touted as a successor to John Corigliano, as a composer whose music is tonal and accessible, but reflects the values of serious composition. This release of his music by the major Harmonia Mundi USA label should come as welcome news to his supporters, and those curious about his music after his 2012 reception of the Pulitzer Prize for music may find it an attractive sampler (it consists of two separate performances of Puts' music, recorded in different places and different times). The two a cappella choral works, If I Were a Swan and To Touch the Sky, are both set to poetry by women; the latter work is a collection of poems from various times and places touching loosely on the "divine feminine." Whether the specificities of these poems can be subsumed so broadly is open to debate, but Puts' style is undeniably attractive. He uses pedal points to anchor the sound, building stacks of harmony around and above them; with the pedal in the background, these can be... Read Less

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