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First Chairs - Adler: Cantos for Solo Instruments

1 CD / Albany Records / 1998-12-01

Works: Samuel Adler: Canto I, for solo trumpet; Canto XIV (Klezmer Fantasy) for solo clarinet; Canto XI, for solo horn; Canto XIII, for solo piccolo; Canto II, for solo trombone; Canto XV, for solo English ...
Performers: Bilger, David [trumpet]; Cohen, Franklin; Gippo, Jan; LeClair, Judith; Meulen, William Ver; Sampen, John; Stacy, Thomas; Vernon, Charlie

"Adler's music recalls Berio's series of compositions called Sequenzias. Each is an essay into a particular instrument's (including the human voice's) postmodern possibilities. These pieces,...continue...