This debut recording by husband-and-wife piano duo of Lukas Geniušas and Anna Geniushene (runner-as much as Yunchan Lim at the 2022 Van Cliburn opponents) beats a revealing route by twentieth-century Americana.

Four works date from the Thirties, including Gershwin’s Cuban Overture and Copland’s El Salón México. Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks became as soon as the composer’s first US price; played in the composer’s two-piano model in mutter of by chamber orchestra, it looks much less an 18th-century homage and extra a correct away link between the baroque and twentieth-century minimalism. A entire distinction comes with Balinese Ceremonial Song by Colin McPhee, who became as soon as mining the chance of gamelan tune a protracted time forward of other western composers followed.

The taking half in is finely balanced and unobtrusively imaginative all by, but it indubitably’s the 2 extra recent items that are arguably essentially the most spicy. Frederic Rzewski’s Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues is originally unsettlingly inhuman, weaving the jabber tune into the noise of manufacturing facility machines: possibilities are you’ll presumably be in a space to picture the pianists as automatons thumping at the keyboards. Somehow, there’s the title work, the title of which John Adams borrowed from a truck cease attain the California-Nevada border. Written in 1996, it’s an instance of how Adams can create minimalism feel astronomical and eclectic; the pianists trace its jangling and surging traces brilliantly.

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