American composer Robert Erickson (1917-1997) came out of the Midwest, but made California home for most of his professional career, and it was there that he established himself as one of the earliest and most influential proponents of the American avant-garde. This disc collects a variety of his works from the '60s through the '80s. The latest piece, Recent Impressions (1987), is remarkable for Erickson's ability to make a piece that is entirely tonal, with some pentatonic elements, sound like adventurous new music. He ...
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American composer Robert Erickson (1917-1997) came out of the Midwest, but made California home for most of his professional career, and it was there that he established himself as one of the earliest and most influential proponents of the American avant-garde. This disc collects a variety of his works from the '60s through the '80s. The latest piece, Recent Impressions (1987), is remarkable for Erickson's ability to make a piece that is entirely tonal, with some pentatonic elements, sound like adventurous new music. He achieves this primarily by making the timbral shifts the focus of the listener's attention, rather than the harmony. Chamber ensemble Continuum plays it with clarity, focus, and attention to its mood of elegiac wistfulness. Two Songs, written the year before to his own texts for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, and piano, are surprisingly lyrical coming from a composer with such a daunting reputation for modernism. The songs have supple, grateful vocal writing that shows off the voice to...
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