The music of Michigan-based composer Michael Daugherty has been gaining attention beyond the U.S., and this release in the Naxos label's American Classics series has accelerated the process. Its British chart success may be due to the presence of Dame Evelyn Glennie in the 2014 percussion concerto Dreamachine; Glennie is not quite the presence on recordings that she was in her RCA heyday, but manifestly from the evidence here she has not lost a step at all. Daugherty, not typically known as a composer of virtuoso music ...
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The music of Michigan-based composer Michael Daugherty has been gaining attention beyond the U.S., and this release in the Naxos label's American Classics series has accelerated the process. Its British chart success may be due to the presence of Dame Evelyn Glennie in the 2014 percussion concerto Dreamachine; Glennie is not quite the presence on recordings that she was in her RCA heyday, but manifestly from the evidence here she has not lost a step at all. Daugherty, not typically known as a composer of virtuoso music hitherto, writes splendid parts for all three soloists in these concertos, but Glennie's is breathtaking. Sample the large dynamic range of its third movement, Electric Eel, inspired by a German painting reproduced in the graphics; the number of percussionists who could have kept control over the movement is not large. But there's more to this album than Glennie. Daugherty has been expanding his characteristic "Stravinsky plus pop culture" musical language, and although all the music...
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