\nWarmth - David Lang
\nEntertwined - Robert Pollock
\nBowery Haunt - Scott Johnson
\nFantasy on 12 Strings - Martin Rokeach
\nResisting Stillness - Chester Biscardi
\nDodecadactyl - Charles Wuorinen
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Cygnus commissioned Meltzer's Brion through a generous grant from teh Barlow Foundation. It was a Pulitzer Finalist in 2011. It was also a featured work at a Cygnus residency at the Library of Congress in 2012.
Frank Brickle is quiet guru in the nascent field of post-maximalism. He was received all of his degrees from Princetonian, studying with JK Randall, Ben Boretz and Milton Babbitt. Starting from that high modernist background, he slowly plowed his way to the post-maximalist stance we see here.
Farai un vers, Merlin I, Ab nou cor, and The Creation are the masterpieces here.
In addition to his striking original compositions, this disc includes two transcriptions for Cygnus, each is advances one of the themes that weave through Cygnus programming over the years: Decadence and the Pre-Raphaelitism.