As She Sings - David Tanenbaum
As She Sings
David Tanenbaum
ReEntrant REN01 (newfocusrecordings.com)
As She Sings
David Tanenbaum
ReEntrant REN01 (newfocusrecordings.com)
The following review is an excerpt from Strings Attached (December 2021) which can be read in its entirety here.
Music written specifically for the guitarist, in this case David Tanenbaum, also features on As She Sings, a CD showcasing works created for him during the past five decades (ReEntrant REN01 newfocusrecordings.com).
Sérgio Assad’s Shadows and Light is followed by Ronald Bruce Smith’s fascinating Five Pieces for guitar with live electronics, in which different playing styles combine with a range of electronic processing.
Music for Guitar is an early piece by Tanenbaum’s father Elias Tanenbaum. Tanenbaum is joined by mezzo-soprano Wendy Hillhouse, flute, bass and ceramic gongs for Dušan Bogdanović’s Games, seven short settings of poetry by the Yugoslavian poet Vasko Popa.
John Anthony Lennon’s elegiac title track completes an intriguing and sometimes challenging disc.
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