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The Mission of Virgil.2 The Great Procession.1 The River of Light1

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From: Fanfare
Date: 20080501
Author:Cooman, Carson

WUORINEN The Mission of Virgil.2 The Great Procession.1 The River of Light1 * Oliver Knussen, cond;1 Richard Moredock (pn);2 Cameron Grant (pn);2 Group for Contemporary Music1 * NAXOS 8.559345 (72:10)

Many of the superb recent releases of the music of Charles Wuorinen (b. 1934) have been reissues of deleted items from the Koch catalog. However, for this newest recording of "The Dante Trilogy," a series of three ballet scores, only one of the pieces (The Mission of Virgil) was previously available. The New York City Ballet (under the leadership of its enterprising ballet master Peter Martins) ...

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