Harry Partch: Bitter Music <BR> BRIDGE 9349A/C2012 Grammy Nominee: Best Classical Compendium It is an astonishing gift of fate when a creative artist, known to the world for a particular achievement, is suddenly shown in a quite different light thanks to the existence of a single document that has somehow escaped the ruthless culling mechanisms of time. Harry Partch? s Bitter Music is such a document, a "diary of eight months spent in transient shelters and camps, hobo jungles, basement rooms,

Fritz Gearhart

Woodwind Quintet (1956)

Der faule Bauer mit seinen Hunden

Jaffe's music is truly "American" in that it reflects a pioneering spirit--a voice that resembles none of the "isms" that populate our present day musical landscape

completed in 1975

19 Fröleich geschrai so well wir machen (1:39)

“The virtuosic pieces sizzle

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the recent first prize winner of the Gaudeamus International competition for interpreters of contemporary music

Redwood (1969) for viola and percussion

“The three works conducted by the composer’s wife Susan are all superb

Bridge has done a real service in providing these excellent recordings of his oeuvre