David Del Tredici, one of the founders and perhaps the reigning lion of American neo-Romanticism, avoided piano music during much of his career but turned to it in his seventh decade and has since produced several albums' worth. The present release is the first in a series planned to cover the composer's complete piano works. It has been supervised by the composer, which of course does not mean that the interpretations by pianist Marc Peloquin are definitive. Del Tredici explores the Romantic virtuoso tradition in these ...
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David Del Tredici, one of the founders and perhaps the reigning lion of American neo-Romanticism, avoided piano music during much of his career but turned to it in his seventh decade and has since produced several albums' worth. The present release is the first in a series planned to cover the composer's complete piano works. It has been supervised by the composer, which of course does not mean that the interpretations by pianist Marc Peloquin are definitive. Del Tredici explores the Romantic virtuoso tradition in these works, but they also have a very attractive late-Brahmsian quality; they are both technically demanding and precise, and they have a strong contrapuntal aspect. Perhaps the strongest pieces are the four New York City scenes entitled Gotham Glory, which are more strongly programmatic. The final pairing of Missing Towers (Perpetual Canon), which refers to the World Trade Center and seems to evoke the rabbit hole down which the mind goes when contemplating that monstrosity, and Wollman...
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