String Quartets with Soprano <BR> BRIDGE 9192This disc of three major 20th century works for voice and string quartet marks the final recording by the distinguished soprano Benita Valente before her retirement from the concert stage. All three works were given their premiere performances by Benita Valente and the Juilliard String Quartet. Richard Wernick's String Quartet No. 5, in four movements, is dedicated to the memory of the Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated in 1995 by an extreme

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As recitalist

textures and moods from a limited amount of material

including The Requiem Canticles

Lieberson has created some beautiful contemporary German lieder

his visionary Sonatas and Interludes performed by pianist Aleck Karis

Elliot Carter produced his remarkable vocal trilogy: A Mirror on Which to Dwell

Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in F major

critic Charles Michener of The New York Observer wrote: "For me

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on GM Recordings)

Francaix: Les petits nerveux