Jerry Bowles has an extensive new profile of composer Sean Hickey and his new Delos CD Sean Hickey: Concertos on Sequenza21.com. Below are a couple of quotes, but this is definitely one you’ll want read all the way through:
“ The release of his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and Concerto for Clarinet on Delos has solidified his reputation as a formidable new classicist whose work demonstrates where American music might have gone had the heirs of neoclassic Stravinsky, Ravel, Hindemith, Milhaud, Martinu, Honneger and their tuneful ilk taken over music academia in the 50s and 60s instead of the mathematicians.
“ His new Delos recording is a much bigger and bolder statement. Featuring soloist Dmitry Kouzov in the Cello Concerto and Alexander Fiterstein in the Clarinet Concerto, maestro Vladimir Lande leads splendid St. Petersburg orchestras in performances that demonstrate Hickey gift for harmonic invention that is at once melodic and challenging, mournful and joyous, conservative and modern, pre-serial and post-romantic.…”— Jerry Bowles, Sequenza21
Read the thorough and entertaining profile on Sequenza21.com!
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