Earl Kim, Robert Starer

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Violin concertos by two American composers of the mid-century generation, documented on EMI. Earl Kim, the Korean-American composer who studied with Schoenberg and Bloch and spent his career at Harvard, brought to his serial language a particular sense of lyrical restraint and formal economy. Robert Starer, the Vienna and Jerusalem-trained composer who settled in New York, developed a post-romantic language inflected by his Middle Eastern formation. Two very different engagements with the concerto form, both documenting composers whose work has received less sustained attention than it merits.