New Rave review for Jane Antonia Cornish’s Duende release in the latest issue of Fanfare Magazine:
“This was my first exposure to the music of Jane Antonia Cornish, and I must admit, I was more than impressed. I was overwhelmed. … Using almost minimal musical materials, she creates an emotionally moving and powerful sound world where a few musical gestures coalesce into striking and powerful statements. … she is able to invoke states of mind and perhaps a state of her soul in a way that is stark and bares her feelings to the world. I find it remarkable that she is willing to do this; certainly, music that cuts this deep is not the usual way of writing nowadays; but Cornish’s aesthetic seems to me very much based on her own state of being, and her urgent desire to share those feelings with others. … If the reader picks up on my references to sensuality in these works, well and good, because that is exactly what I hear in Cornish’s music. It is, as I said earlier, deeper than its form seems to indicate, thus sensuality is only one of its features, but that is certainly present. …this is far from being background music. This is extraordinarily deep music. … All the performances on this CD are up to the challenge of the music, and thankfully, the sound quality is crisp and clear. …the music is so intense that 45 minutes is about as much as one can handle at one time. This is really good music, different in a way that may upset or challenge your norms, but powerful and moving nonetheless.” —Lynn René Bayley, Fanfare Magazine
Read the full review in the Fanfare Archive
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