Our new ALBUM OF THE WEEK is...
En amor duro, by Maria de Alvear and Hildegard Kleeb
Check out this album by the Spanish composer Maria de Alvear and the Swiss pianist Hildegard Kleeb.
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About the album:
This landmark 1991 work by Spanish composer Maria De Alvear is perhaps her most haunting, a sheer mystery in its stark beauty. Written in five movements that are virtually indistinguishable from one another, De Alvear's score is, for the performer, either a detective story with few clues, or a work of spiritual process creating itself in a void where composer, performer, and listener all commune on a level that exists only in the sacred and/or erotic unconscious. The music here is so sparsely composed, the range so narrow, you would swear upon first listen that little if anything was happening (much in the same way that first-time listeners are confused by the work of Morton Feldman, though De Alvear's work couldn't be more different). But this is the first of many veiled truths inherent in her work.
Source: Thom Jurek - All Music
Source: Thom Jurek - All Music
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