Vivier’s piece, an impassioned plea for light, or enlightenment, layers instruments, sung texts and recorded sound (including Martin Luther King’s last speech) in a sensuous work of tremendous emotional impact.

Ohoi reflects Scelsi’s feeling that he was a medium or emissary merely translating and passing on things received in a state of meditation.

Zefiro torna engages traces of music by Monteverdi with other musics, and ancient winds of a more ominous nature, finally to emerge when the gentle and agreeable wind Zephyr returns … again.

Schnittke’s concerto, lovingly incorporating music from film, dance halls, brass bands and Soviet military marches, is pure passion in its conception and what it requires of the soloist.

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