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...Arnold Schoenberg once said "My works are not modern, just badly played." He was speaking of performers who, in a struggle to hack their way through a dense undergrowth of notes and rhythms, lose sight of the larger terrain...
...Schoenberg would have had few complaints about Jan DeGaetani, the mezzo-soprano whose recording of his Book of the Hanging Gardens was just released on Nonesuch...
DeGaetani has made a big reputation singing contemporary works partly because of her uncanny ability to navigate faultlessly among unconventional rhythms and unexpected pitch relations. That ability is very much in evidence on this recording as is a comfortable, idiomatic approach to the music. She gives subtle shape to Schoenberg's disoriented vocal lines...
...best things about the record is the playing of planist Gilbert Kalish. Equally at home with Schoenberg and Schubert, Kalish's playing is always restrained and insightful...
Moses and Aaron (Schoenberg's opera), Sunday...