Music of John Harbison <BR> BRIDGE 9200Bridge is pleased to be re releasing the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's spectacular recording of John Harbison's poignant setting of Eugenio Montale poems of memory and loss, Due Libri dei Mottetti di Montale. Originally released on the Archetype label, this work and Harbison's virtuosic Concerto for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings, will now be restored to the active catalog. One astute critic referred to the Concerto as "scenes from a marriage." This

hallucinatory

“These performances are borne out of unquestionable forethought and integrity

Ronald Barrows

Chasalow calls Davidovsky “one of the truly original musical voices to have emerged from post war America

The songs frequently veer from the simple and tonal to more rhythmically complex and chromatic settings

in a way an appendix to the Estancia dances

Though her Japanese heritage is never far from the heart of her music

Collaborating with equally brilliant partners

“Perfection ought seldom if ever be used in describing a musical performance

and his performance here takes up where his Violin Concerto reading leaves off

On five of the tracks (1

Ruders's second cello concerto