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Music : Leo Kraft: Chamber Works
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Leo Kraft: Chamber Works from: Albany Records |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0034061048923 Label: Albany Records Manufacturer: Albany Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Albany Records Release Date: December 18, 2001 Studio: Albany Records Sales Rank: 759618 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Impeccably Crafted Music of Variable InterestLeo Kraft (b. 1922) was a long-time professor at Queens College and possibly best known in that role and as a writer of technical books on music. But he also has been a prolific composer. This disc contains chamber music in various instrumental combinations. "Six Pieces for Violin and Piano," impressively played by Renee Jolles, violin, and Christopher Oldfather, has the violin front and center; the piano truly is, for most of the work, an obbligato instrument. The music in this and all the other works recorded here, save possibly the "Chamber Symphony," is in an impressively crafted, astringent, post-Hindemithian style, often veering into atonality and, sadly, there is little that is memorable. In the "Six Pieces" I was struck by the atmosphere ... Read More: |
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