Art, Music And Theatre Arts

The first movement of the Sonata No. 1 thus slithers round like snakes in a snake pit trying to escape. Of course I’m simply being a bit fanciful by describing it thus; as usual, Cooke has a agency grasp on the musical structure, but its harmonic audacity is so arresting that it’s what impacts you most on first listening to. Also shocking is that Babbitt was truly able to create a somewhat tonal vocal line in his Solo Requiem which, divorced from the atonal accompaniment, wouldn’t sound all that unusual to most ears.

• Before we even reach the midway level, in fact, the music turns into even sooner and louder, with the cellist playing edgy bowed figures which are quite menacing indeed, being in a minor mode.
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