David Holzman: Music of Sessions and Shapey <BR> BRIDGE 9243David Holzman surely stands among the greatest living exponents of 20th century American music. The 58 year old New York pianist's last CD (Music of Wolpe, BRIDGE 9116) was Grammy nominated, won the 2003 Indie Award for "Best Classical CD of the Year", and won a Deems Taylor award. This new disc continues along that same intensely virtuosic path, with heroic readings of seminal works of Roger Sessions (1896 1985) and Ralph Shapey (1921 2002). These

Forlane (solo guitar)

is widely regarded as the most ambitious and monumental harpsichord composition of the baroque

and The White Diadem- Songs About Poets and Poetry

Biber seems to have been the best

the performance of the Violin Concerto on the other CD is especially interesting

Also included are Crumb’s mysterious A Haunted Landscape

it is wonderful to hear music that is composed completely by ear

which included notable Copland premiere recordings

“Congratulations to David Lewiston and Bridge Records for issuing this recording of ritual chanting by the monks of Ganden Monastery’s Shartse College

are heard in this loving tribute to Musgrave

At nearly 35 minutes

Rostislav Dubinsky