Classical album review: Tavener / Pärt / Górecki

Published on Sunday 24 January 2010 10:51

TAVENER, PÄRT, GÓRECKI… A Place Between LCMS901, £11.99

Contemporary music recordings don't tend to feature in top ten lists, partly because lack of air-time on radio is matched by audience lack of familiarity. While some composers, such as John Tavener, Henryck Grecki and Arvo Prt, have crossed that line into popular consciousness: others, such as the late John Cage, still inspire apprehensive glances.

This CD from the Louth Contemporary Music Society, however, reveals what a wealth of enjoyable music there is to be found even from composers such as Cage, with his softly spoken In A Landscape from 1948.

Nor do the others disappoint: even Valentin Silvestrov's near- minimalist compositions are a thorough delight.

Download this: 25.X.1893… P.I. Tchaikovsky

&#149 This article was first published in Scotland on Sunday on 24 January, 2010