Martin Bresnick: Every Thing Must Go

Lisa Moore (piano), Wei-yi Yang (piano), Abigail Nims (soprano), Ashley Bathgate (cello), Yale Camerata, Prism Saxophone Quartet, Marguerite Brooks

Catalog #: TROY1184
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Format: Digital
Chamber

Most of the music on this recording honors artists whose works are going or have gone, and each work is either a song or composition in the lyrical mode. The compositions celebrate the work of departed masters--Yehuda Amichai, Gyögy Ligeti, Johannes Brahms and Willie Dixon (among others) and the title honors the last album recorded by Walter Becker and Donald Fagin of Steely Dan. The distinguished American composer Martin Bresnick's compositions are performed throughout the world and he is the recipient of many prizes and commissions including The Rome Prize, The Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many others. Recognized as in influential composition teacher, Martin Bresnick is a member of the faculty at Yale University's School of Music.

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Track Listing

Title Composer Performer
Willie's Way Martin Bresnick Lisa Moore, piano
Falling Martin Bresnick Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano, Wei-yi Yang, piano
Ballade Martin Bresnick Ashley Bathgate, cello, Lisa Moore, cello
Three Choral Songs Martin Bresnick Yale Camerata, Marguerite Brooks, conductor
Every Thing Must Go Martin Bresnick Prism Saxophone Quartet

Reviews

  • "Highly recommended...Bresnick has a very original sense of how to write grandly for chamber groupings...For meaty music of a Beethovenian or Brahmsian cast, without pandering pastiche, this is the man."

    – Fanfare

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