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Recommended Components 2020 Edition
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Recording of April 2020: Afterimage
String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Argus Quartet, Melissa Hughes, Kate Maroney, Rachel Lee Priday
Furious Artisans facd6823 (CD). 2020. Emily Bookwalter, Eli Spindel, prods.; Ryan Streber, eng.
Performance ****
Sonics ****
If an orchestra is going to wait more than a decade before releasing its first record, it had better go big when it finally doeswhich is what the String Orchestra of Brooklyn has done. Afterimage includes compositions by Paganini (17821840) and Pergolesi (17101736) alongside works by Rome Prize winner Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) and the less well-known Jacob Cooper (b. 1980).