Chiaroscuro. Modern works for soprano and piano
Jane Sheldon, soprano; Zubin Kanga, pianoClassical, New Music
Phosphor records PR0003
Reviewed by Gordon Kerry, November 1st, 2015
About sixty years ago Theodor W Adorno lamented that ‘modern music is growing old’. As a theorist of an idiosyncratic Marxist bent, Adorno, in his 1949 Philosophie der neuen Musik, had constructed a kind of musical Manichaeism with Schoenberg representing the ‘light’ half of the equation, while Stravinsky was the great heresiarch who had betrayed… continue reading »
