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Absolute garbage

Deborah Mays | 04/07/2002

(1 out of 5 stars)

"This CD was given to me for free, and after one listening, I could understand why. Don't be fooled by the instrumentation that sounds like it could be interesting. The compositions are mostly used-up ideas, tiresome colors lacking a process or purpose. My first thought while listening was that this sounded like a disc of works written by student composers from third rate music schools. Then I checked the liner notes and discovered that's exactly what it is. Even the playing is weak - while perhaps a few of the horn bleats were written that way on purpose, there is an exceptional amount of awful playing hiding behind the fact that this music is unknown. This is one of the worst classical CDs I've ever heard."