Michael Gandolfi's 67-minute The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is stylistically all over the place (not that that's a bad thing), but it takes its inspiration from a single source, a sprawling sculptural garden of the same name created (primarily) by American architect Charles Jencks in the hills of Scotland. Gandolfi depicts various elements of the garden in his suite, which at its premiere at Tanglewood had nine movements, but which has grown to 16 movements for this recording, and the composer plans to continue adding ...
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Michael Gandolfi's 67-minute The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is stylistically all over the place (not that that's a bad thing), but it takes its inspiration from a single source, a sprawling sculptural garden of the same name created (primarily) by American architect Charles Jencks in the hills of Scotland. Gandolfi depicts various elements of the garden in his suite, which at its premiere at Tanglewood had nine movements, but which has grown to 16 movements for this recording, and the composer plans to continue adding more as Jencks expands the garden. The composer doesn't expect the piece to be performed in its ever-expanding entirety, and suggests that conductors pick and choose movements to form their own version of the piece. In its recorded form, the work is in three distinct sections. The first and third consist of brief, evocative mini-tone poems, lasting from about three to about ten minutes. The movements are strongly differentiated, colorfully and stylistically varied, so there is no...
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