Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra

by John Zorn

Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 September 1998
  • Label: Tzadik
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:16
  • Community rating: 3.17/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring pianist Stephen Drury and the American Composers Orchestra, the avant-garde polymath presents a sprawling, complex modern classical concerto. The composition eschews traditional structure, acting as an ominous, highly dissonant, and frequently chaotic multi-part requiem that violently shifts between delicate choral passages and terrifying orchestral dissonance.

Genres

Descriptors: death, avant-garde, choral, orchestral, complex

Tracklist

  1. Prelude (6:41)
  2. Impetuoso (3:31)
  3. Con Mistero (3:01)
  4. Languendo (2:34)
  5. Risentito (2:50)
  6. Freddamente (2:32)
  7. Religioso (2:05)
  8. Drammatico (4:53)
  9. Postlude (4:22)
  10. Coda (0:47)

Credits

  • William Drury - conductor
  • Dennis Russell Davies - conductor [conducted by]
  • Francis Bacon - painting [cover]
  • Stephen Drury - piano, soloist
  • Craig McNutt - handclaps
  • Gary Wallen - handclaps
  • Robert Schultz - handclaps
  • William Manley - handclaps

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