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ClassicalEar on Adam Schoenberg’s Orchestral Music: Superb

Posted by Reference Recordings on
 March 23, 2017

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“Schoenberg’s painterly soundscapes fall very easily on the ear… Best in my view are the Picture Studies, especially the Stravinskyan ferocity of ‘Kandinsky’ and ‘Miró’, which is bouncy and percussive, with telling use of an E-flat clarinet. The closing piece, ‘Pigeons in Flight’ after a photograph by Francis Blake recalls, like certain other works on the disc, the gently pulsing, harmonically pleasing delirium of Reich, though Schoenberg’s style more approximates the composing manners of Adams (unintentional punning there) or Torke.… The playing of the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern is excellent and the recorded sound, superb.” —Rob Cowan, Classical Ear

Read the full review on ClassicalEar.co.uk

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Tags : Adam Schoenberg, ClassicalEar, Kansas City Symphony, Review, Rob Cowan
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