Fanfare Magazine
November/December 2006

The Want List 2006 — William Zagorski

RZEWSKI Coming Together. Pocket Symphony. Les Moutons de Panurge l eighth blackbird l CEDILLE CDR 90000 084

The six-person ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, masterfully realizes three of Frederic Rzewski’s works. Rzewski (b. 1938) is a highly inventive composer who, typical of this day and age, integrates a vast number of musical isms into his language. His music is intricate and demanding—that of a minimalist with an uncharacteristic appreciation of the need for a forward thrusting and variegated harmonic rhythm, and Eighth Blackbird sails through these scores as if they were the most congenial of playgrounds.

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