Jorge Liderman: Song of Songs <BR> BRIDGE 9172Jorge Liderman's stunningly beautiful setting of "The Song of Songs" is a dramatic cantata that treats the joyous Old Testament tale of the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover with music of great physicality and almost primitive rhythmic energy. Scored for vocal soloists, female chorus and chamber orchestra, Liderman divides the instrumental ensemble into three groups: a pulsing and percussive pair of marimbas and pair of pianos, a lush

Wayne du Maine and Lew Soloff

Trio (1982) Hommage à Brahms

as well as the 1976 revised version of Night Music I

to transport the hearer above the realm of the ordinary and beyond the limits of normal expectation

abrupt dynamic contrasts

Featured are three of Davidovsky’s “Synchronisms” pieces for instruments and electronic sounds

a brassy and celebratory composition that heralded the end of World War II and led to the beginning of Carter’s mature style

his music here is also tinged with a German romantic tonality

Catherine Szepes

brilliant and alive but with plenty of depth

'Lude was written as a companion piece to J

and Virgil Thomson's passionate The Feast of Love