Cory: Things Are & String Quartet No. 3
) | Label: NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS Catalog: 8559784 Format: CD MACOMBER MCMILLEN ROSENFELD GOSLING MOMENTA STRING QUARTET KAHN ANDERSON BAKERIt’s the shifting of musical languages in Eleanor Cory’s music that gives her compositions their unique vibrancy, such as the “modal, tonal, atonal mix” of her First Violin Sonata, as well as jazz elements. All of this and more can be found in Things Are, her memorial for composer Milton Babbitt, and in the Celebration of pianistic virtuosity. Cory’s Third String Quartet expresses both “sweet melancholy” and playful dialogue. Epithalamium explores the flute’s flexibility in elegantly shaped gestures, while the instrumentation of the Fantasy is light in its mood and airy textures.  Price: $19.98 |