Believe it or not, this Naxos American Classics disc, Joseph Schwantner: Chamber Music, is only the second all-Schwantner offering in the entire CD era, the other being Evelyn Glennie's The Music of Joseph Schwantner released on RCA Red Seal in 1997. Back in music school, this reviewer remembers when composition students in the "scrounge lounge" gathered around a table as someone unfurled a bootleg Xerox copy of Joseph Schwantner's latest score, Black Anenomes. The gasp of excitement that followed has never left this ...
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Believe it or not, this Naxos American Classics disc, Joseph Schwantner: Chamber Music, is only the second all-Schwantner offering in the entire CD era, the other being Evelyn Glennie's The Music of Joseph Schwantner released on RCA Red Seal in 1997. Back in music school, this reviewer remembers when composition students in the "scrounge lounge" gathered around a table as someone unfurled a bootleg Xerox copy of Joseph Schwantner's latest score, Black Anenomes. The gasp of excitement that followed has never left this reviewer's memory; and indeed, for conservatory-educated musicians the work of Schwantner has been regarded as nothing less than awe-inspiring for a very long time. In the era of LPs, Schwantner's work was fairly well-represented for a composer of his then-tender age, but with the dawn of digital relatively little of it has come our way, certainly nothing equivalent to the stature in which Schwantner is held by his peers.Finally Naxos has come to the rescue with a fine disc of some of...
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