WILLIAM BOLCOM (b.1938): Cello Sonata, Capriccio for Cello and Piano, Décalage for Cello and Piano, Dark Music for Cello and Timpani, Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in C Minor.
Catalogue Number: 12J105
Label: Naxos
Reference: 8.559348
Format: CD
Price: $11.98
Description: The usual wild variations in style are evident here as they were several months ago in Bolcom's complete works for violin. Tonality, melody and classical form in the sonata, Capriccio and Suite (all of which were composed between 1988 and 1995), a shocking Boulezian sound-world in the 1962 Décalage and bleak and barren landscape depicted with microtones, glissando harmonics and "dead" strokes on the timpani in 1970's Dark Music. Norman Fischer (cello), Jeanne Kierman (piano), Andrea Moore (timpani).