Classical album review: Tavener / Pärt / Górecki
By ALEXANDER BRYCE
TAVENER, PÄRT, GÓRECKI…
A Place Between
LCMS901, £11.99
Contemporary music recordings don’t tend to feature in top ten lists, partly because lack of air-time on radio is matched by audience lack of familiarity. While some composers, such as John Tavener, Henryck Górecki and Arvo Pärt, have crossed that line into popular consciousness: others, such as the late John Cage, still inspire apprehensive glances.
This CD from the Louth Contemporary Music Society, however, reveals what a wealth of enjoyable music there is to be found even from composers such as Cage, with his softly spoken In A Landscape from 1948.
Nor do the others disappoint: even Valentin Silvestrov’s near- minimalist compositions are a thorough delight.
Download this: 25.X.1893… P.I. Tchaikovsky
• This article was first published in Scotland on Sunday on 24 January, 2010
