David Del Tradici Final Alice
' It is the very impurity, oulrageousness and wild complexity which Final Alice often attains which make it so much more than a neo-tonal cop-out.' Oliver Knussen introduces the gramophone record of the Bicentennial commission, ' written for one of the most famous of Mahler/Strauss conductors and his orchestra and succeeding somehow in being characteristic both of them and of the composer '.
BARBARA HENDRICKS (SOp) CHICAGO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI