Opera News names Continent’s End: Song Cycles by Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli a Critic’s Choice! “Anderson-Bazzoli employs a largely tonal approach, with varied musical characterizations… the work is very well crafted. It’s gracious for the voice and engaging for the piano. Mezzo-Soprano Buffy Baggott has a warm sound and elegant phrasing. She manages the varied challenges of…
Fanfare’s July/August 2019 issue will feature the following rave for Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli’s Continent’s End Song Cycle recording featuring Buffy Baggott and Kevin Korth: “Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli’s response to the texts is visceral; the sheer drama of the opening song, “Granite and Cypress,” with its tumultuous piano opening below the imperious voice (“White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children…
The April 2019 Issue of Gramophone Magazine reviews Continent’s End: Song Cycle by Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli in their Sounds of America section: “Nearly everything about this disc arrives like a bolt out of the blue. … Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli…composed Continent’s End by improvising vocal lines to Jeffers’s poems, which he then recorded, with piano-writing to follow. …epic qualities…
Enjoy a new video-overview of Continent’s End from the composer, Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli: Continent’s End Song Cycle by Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli Based On Nine Poems of Robinson Jeffers While Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is one of America’s most important 20th-century poets, relatively few composers have set his lean, emotive and enigmatic verses. Composer Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli, like Jeffers a…
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