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Michael Hersch: Chamber Music.(Sound Recording Review)
Michael Hersch: Chamber Music Michael Hersch, piano/Matthew Hunter, viola/David Riniker, cello/String Soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic (Vanguard Classics ATM-CD-1240)
Michael Hersch (b. 1971) is a young American composer who is just beginning to gain notice. I believe this is his first commercially available recording; surely there will be more to come.
There are four compositions featured in this compilation. The first is Recordatio, featuring Hersch on solo piano. The overall sound is reminiscent of Schoenberg; but more tender, less formal. This may not be music you would want to listen to over and over again, but when you are in the mood, it is fascinating and enjoyable. Most of it is quiet and introspective, almost dreamlike, but there are also abrupt bursts of energy.
The second composition is Two Pieces for Piano. Both pieces are rich with expression, with some wonderful chords and some virtuoso passage, but both are also quite dualistic in their combining of introversion and extroversion. No, this music doesn't sound like the piano music of Beethoven, but a similar ...
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...These include such current faculty members as Nicholas Maw, Michael Hersch (he's also an alum) and Kevin Puts, and former Peabody...Messiaen's mystical music, the other to rarely encountered chamber-music arrangements of vocal and symphonic works by Gustav Mahler...
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...Kendrix May 31--Mention the phrase "chamber music" and it's easy to imagine a group...to change that perspective by mixing chamber music with modern music and techniques...April 20, which was canceled. "The chamber music demographic is shrinking and getting...
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