Cecil Taylor: Algonquin <BR> BRIDGE 9146The visionary piano virtuoso Cecil Taylor was commissioned by the Library of Congress to write a work for violin and piano in 1999. The result was Taylor's "Algonquin"an intensely joyful dialogue between violinist Mat Maneri and Taylor. Taylor's score bridges the gap between jazz and classical musicbetween improvisation and notated music. As annotator Bill Shoemaker writes: "A Taylor score opens a moment of intense creativity, but only for that

partly because it restores a major Carter work to the catalogue

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“Bridge’s superb sonics and the top-class performances offer a cornucopia of pleasure to anyone remotely interested in modern music

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enshrining some generous performances

Of special interest is Korngold's voluptuous and rarely performed song cycle

Horatio Parker: Vathek

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