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- Record Label: 52hz
- Release Date: Apr 8, 2016
- Summary: The saxophonist worked with a 12-piece band that included such artists as Arcade Fire's Sarah Neufeld, Saltland's Rebecca Foon, Greg Fox of Liturgy, Megan Stetson on his reimagination of Górecki's Symphony No. 3.
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- Record Label: 52hz
- Genre(s): Classical, Classical Crossover, Miscellaneous (Classical)
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Apr 8, 2016Stetson is stepping it up a notch; inexplicably adding drama to the music that is already steeped in powerful emotional sensations.
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Apr 8, 2016Sorrow is a radical reinterpretation, but it should be accessible to many. Stetson delivers an acute, wider, deeper hearing of Górecki's symphony as a powerful, beautiful, musically diverse meditation on unspeakable loss.
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Apr 8, 2016This is something at once new and familiar, and it demands your attention immediately.
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UncutApr 27, 2016A remarkable accomplishment. [Jun 2016, p.79]
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Apr 15, 2016This is instrumental music that embraces its undying capacity for uplift, that shakes off distinctions between bathos and pathos, between mawkish and grave, as it blasts upward.
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Apr 13, 2016SORROW feels like a half-hour pummeling followed by a 24-minute healing session. And maybe that’s the point. Separation--and the grief resulting from it--is never an evenly balanced journey.
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Apr 8, 2016It’s an album that you’ll get immersed in, one with surprises more subtle than some of Stetson’s other work, but not necessarily less rewarding.
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