Steven Mackey <br> Speak Like the People, Write Like the King <BR> BRIDGE 9257The three pieces on this disc are all for string quartet, or two string quartets (Gaggle and Flock). Ars Moriendi, Latin for 'the art of dying well', in 9 sections, is an extremely personal composition, virtually a diary describing the demise of the composer's father. 'Lude was written as a companion piece to J. S. Bach's Contrapunctis XI from "The Art of the Fugue", and Gaggle and Flock was composed to celebrate collegial bonds between the two

the Moscow Radio and Television Orchestra a strong ensemble

1 in D Minor

This three disc set of American orchestral masterpieces brings several works into the CD catalog for the first time

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Ludwig van Beethoven:

La Chanson d’Eve

- The New York Times

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taking the First Prize in the International American Music Competition sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation

an imitation of Balinese Gamelan in its first movement

His Foramen Habet

It seems pretty clear that where Lansky aims his talent has as much to do with insouciance as with targets missed or unseen