KOTCHEFF gone into night are all the eyes
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Composer or Director: Charles Ives, Eric Moe, Leon Kirchner, Thomas Kotcheff
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Odradek
Magazine Review Date: 02/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 75
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ODRCD313
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
gone into night are all the eyes |
Thomas Kotcheff, Composer
Thomas Kotcheff, Composer Trio Appassionata |
We Happy Few |
Eric Moe, Composer
Eric Moe, Composer Trio Appassionata |
Piano Trio No. 1 |
Leon Kirchner, Composer
Leon Kirchner, Composer Trio Appassionata |
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano |
Charles Ives, Composer
Charles Ives, Composer Trio Appassionata |
Author: David Patrick Stearns
Though the works by Kirchner and Ives are in fact more dense and hard to parse, this is where the disc finds more solid ground. Even if you don’t immediately apprehend the music, the compositional zeal has palpable charisma that makes repeated encounters with Kirchner, for example, a sort of wonderland of atonal simultaneity. The Ives Trio is a major American chamber work and a particularly characteristic example of the composer’s art, with clouds of harmonic ambiguity recalling the American Impressionist painters with unpredictable mixtures of Americana songs such as ‘My old Kentucky home’. But while the Beaux Arts Trio recording (found in the box-set ‘The Philips Recordings 1967-1974’) attempts to clarify what the music says, Trio Appassionata seem equally if not more interested in how the composer is saying it in a performance with a more vernacular accent. Therein perhaps lies the trio’s limitation: it’s so swept up in the physicality of performance that inner meaning becomes secondary.
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