George Rochberg is one of America's most highly-regarded composers, one of the first to make a decisive break with twelve-tone music and return to a tonal new Romanticism.The album centers on Eliot Fisk, one of the leading American guitarists. All three works on the disc were written for him.All three have different musical forces. The solo guitar is represented by Rochberg's American Bouquet, a set of seven compositions based on American popular songs of the golden age that brought us the great standards (plus two of ...
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George Rochberg is one of America's most highly-regarded composers, one of the first to make a decisive break with twelve-tone music and return to a tonal new Romanticism.The album centers on Eliot Fisk, one of the leading American guitarists. All three works on the disc were written for him.All three have different musical forces. The solo guitar is represented by Rochberg's American Bouquet, a set of seven compositions based on American popular songs of the golden age that brought us the great standards (plus two of Rochberg's own songs). Fisk's frequent partner, flutist Paula Robison, joins him in Rochberg's bitter Muse of Fire, where the composer confronts the impossibility of adequately portraying the horrors of war in an art form. Six members of the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center take part with Fisk in the guitar concerto Eden: Out of Time and Out of Space, which gives its name to the whole program. Fisk and his partners are entirely in command of this music. He obeys Rochberg's injunction not...
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