Michael Hersch: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, Fracta, Arraché
- Conductor: Marin Alsop
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Audio CD: November 21, 2006
Label: Naxos 8.559281
1. Symphony No. 2, excerpt, Marin Alsop, Bournemouth
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2. Fracta, excerpt, Marin Alsop, Bournemouth Symphony
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3. Arrache', excerpt, Marin Alsop, Bournemouth
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"These performances confirm Michael Hersch (b.1971) as one of the most seriously engaging musical voices in the U.S. today. The Second Symphony marries a volcanic New World energy to a deeply skeptical, often angst-ridden spiritual climate. Alsop and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra are brilliant advocates." -- Andrew Clark (The Financial Times, UK)
"(4 stars) Three years separate Michael Hersch's First and Second Symphonies. The first, composed in 1998, is hauntingly beautiful, densely textured with an inexorable sense of the organic. The second displays a rather more searching and adventurous style, where dramatic extremes and a more intense astringency are its lifeblood. There's an alluring boldness about this young American's music, which is noticeable too in Fracta and Arraché, both contained in this big-scale survey by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marin Alsop." -- The Scotsman
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