Ursula Oppens has received four Grammy Award nominations, including for her albums 'Winging It: Piano Music of John Corigliano' and 'Oppens Plays Carter'.
Performer Biography
Ursula Oppens, a pianist on this album, has premiered works by many leading composers including Luciano Berio, John Harbison, György Ligeti, and Frederic Rzewski.
Performer Biography
Robert Levin, a pianist on this album, is a noted Mozart scholar whose completions of Mozart's Requiem and other unfinished works have been performed worldwide.
Performer Biography
Robert Levin is renowned for his improvised cadenzas in Classical period repertoire and has recorded a wide range of music on both modern and period pianos.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bernard Rands' music aims for homogeneity and integration, drawing influence from varied sources but eschewing postmodernism's tendency to treat all styles as equally valid.
Composer Biography
Bernard Rands, the composer featured on this album, won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his work 'Canti del Sole' and the 1986 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for 'Le Tambourin'.
Recording & Production
This recording was made possible in part by a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Recorded Music, Inc. and Schott Helicon Music Corporation, New York.
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