Alternative Schubertiade

1. Impromptu in E flat major after Schubert
Composed by Nick Didkovsky

2. Cram Jin Qotient
Composed by Annie Gosfield
with Annie Gosfield

3. Franz in the Underworld
Composed by Phil Kline
with Phil Kline

4. Fremd Zieh' Ich Wieder Aus
Composed by Anita D. Perry
with Jonathan Bepler , Chien Yin Chen

5. Sighted Sub, Sank Same
Composed by Roger Kleier

6. Fishy Wishy
Composed by Kitty Brazelton
with Kitty Brazelton , Jed Distler , Dafna Naphtali , Rene Santer , Danny Tunik

7. Thought You Said Sherbert
Composed by David First
with David First , David First , David First

8. Das Morgenholz
Composed by Gordon Minette
with Gordon Minette , Carla Lother

9. Shoebird
Composed by D J Firehorse

10. URWhatU8
Composed by Anita D. Perry
with John Myers , John Myers , Hester Laten

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Alternative Schubertiade
Average customer rating:

Downtown composers on a bad day

Alternative Schubertiade

Manufacturer: Composers Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Classical | Styles | Music
Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000IYO7
Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

Impromptu in E-flat Major
Cram Jin Quotient
Franz in the Underworld
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus -- A Stranger
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus: A Sign
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus: Thoughts
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus: Spring Dreams
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus: Last Hope
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus: In Town
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus: Resolution
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus: Romance
Fremd Zieh' Ich Wider Aus: Minstrel
Sighted Sub, Sank Same
Fishy Wishy
Thought You Said Sherbert
Das Morgenholz
Shoebird
URWhatU8

Customer Reviews:

Downtown composers on a bad day.......2001-02-24

When I first picked up this recording at a used-CD shop, I thought I had made a rare find, as I am a great fan of the post-minimal downtown music movement. Modern composers as a rule tend to despise Schubert and his overt sentimentalism (I include myself in that group), and I was curious to see if the Downtowners could somehow translate the unrestrained romanticism into fresh statements for our times.

Nope. The quality of the pieces consists of a couple of fairly good pieces, a few so-so, and quite a few very bad ones.

The most successful works on the CD are the minimal treatments of Schubert themes by David First, Roger Kleier, and Annie Gosfield. Also noteworthy is "Das Morgenholz" by Gordon Minette, a colorful piano four-hand work that bears an at best tangential relation to Schubert.

Phil Kline's piece "Franz In The Underworld" is a potentially fine piece, but it is marred by a stiff sequencer-realized performance.

Particularly awful are a song cycle by Jon Bepler, Nick Didkovsky's computerized Nancarrow-ish rearrangement of the Impromptu in Eb Major, which sounds like a computer with a broken MIDI interface, and an odd and unpleasant Schubert Dance Mix by someone called DJ Firehorse!

This CD sunk into the depths of my collection some time ago, and I recently revived it to find if there was any potential for it beyond use as a coaster. I eventually decided to keep it, thanks to two tracks, David First's "Thought You Said Sherbet" and Gordon Minette's "Das Morgenholz."

Fans of the downtown music scene would be better off looking at the "Bang On A Can" collections than these very sub-standard works.

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