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Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra

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Released
  
September 15, 1998

Label
  
Tzadik TZ 7037

Aporias Requia for Piano and Orchestra (1998)
  
The Bribe (1998)

Length
  
33:18

Producer
  
John Zorn

Genre
  
Avant-garde, Contemporary classical music

Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra is an album of contemporary classical music by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn performed by Stephen Drury, the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir and the American Composers Orchestra.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Joslyn Layne awarded the album 3½ stars stating "With a range of bass drums, Eastern percussion hints, and interjections of orchestral warm-up moments, this short composition slips by in the shadows, remaining obscured even while enunciating.".

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn.

  1. "Prelude" - 6:40
  2. "Impetuoso" 3:31
  3. "Con Mistero" - 2:58
  4. "Languendo" - 2:33
  5. "Risentito" - 2:50
  6. "Freddamente" - 2:33
  7. "Religioso" - 2:04
  8. "Drammatico" - 4:52
  9. "Postlude" 4:21
  10. "Coda" - 0:49

Personnel

  • Stephen Drury – piano
  • American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
  • Hungarian Radio Children's Choir

    • References

    Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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