Word: tetrameron
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...latest C.R.I, release, Watanabe offers Roger Sessions' Symphony No. i and Russell Smith's Tetrameron, neither of them recorded before. Sessions' is a brilliant, rhythmically complex work shot through with passages of surprisingly simple and appealing lyricism; Smith's is a quiet, ten-minute exercise full of odd sonorities. The orchestra plays them both cleanly, with notable purity of tone. The Sessions symphony was taken at a faster tempo than the composer intended, Watanabe recalls, and when Sessions heard of it he cabled, urging that they stick to the "correct tempo." Instead, Watanabe forwarded the tapes...
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