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File under: Modern Classical
Ned Rorem
Winter Pages, Bright Music (CD)
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Ned Rorem's music strives for clarity. He distrusts the convoluted, the pompous, the grandiose. To some degree this is a legacy of his years in Paris and his exposure to figures such as Poulenc, Auric, and Cocteau. However, Rorem treated the neoclassical aesthetic not with French irony and emotional distance, but with American openness and first-name intimacy, adding clarity of emotional expression to intelligibility of means. Winter Pages and Bright Music exemplify Rorem's subtle, direct style that, while evocative of his French influences, communicates in an unmistakable and unique voice.
Details
Tracklist
| Winter Pages | |||
| 1 | A Mirror | 0:44 | |
| 2 | The Sun That Brief December Day | 3:16 | |
| 3 | Around The House The Flakes Fly Faster | 2:28 | |
| 4 | Paris Then | 1:45 | |
| 5 | Dorchester Avenue | 1:40 | |
| 6 | Hesitations | 1:43 | |
| 7 | Urged By Earnest Violins | 7:06 | |
| 8 | Moments Fly By Like A Snowstorm | 1:47 | |
| 9 | Rue Des Saints-Peres | 1:21 | |
| 10 | Valse Oubliee | 1:52 | |
| 11 | Stone Snowballs | 2:58 | |
| 12 | Still Life | 2:31 | |
| Bright Music | |||
| 13 | Fandango | 3:53 | |
| 14 | Pierrot | 2:15 | |
| 15 | Dance-Song-Dance | 6:05 | |
| 16 | Another Dream | 7:43 | |
| 17 | Chopin | 0:54 | |
Credits
- Ned Rorem
- Composed By (All)
