American Tapestry: Duos for Flute & Piano <BR> BRIDGE 9411American Tapestry celebrates four composers, Robert Beaser, Aaron Copland, Robert Muczynski and Lowell Liebermann whose musical languages remained distinctly tonal amidst the pervasive compositional climate of mid 20th century American serialism. Each of these composers freely infused their music with popular styles including jazz, folk, pop and musical theater. Remarkable on this recording is the stellar duo playing of Susan Rotholz and Margaret

“This disk is an interesting and worthwhile collection of works from some of the great contemporary composers

London Symphony Orchestra

and numerous others

directed by the late Sergiu Comissiona

“Bland has rounded up a dedicated and skillful batch of interpreters here

Reisenberg studied with Leonid Nikolayev (St

William Purvis

Four Anniversaries

“The group brings a hearty homogeneity of tone to the five-movement 1908 Intimate Voices Quaret of Jean Sibelius

in addition to string quartet

percussion (two players)

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