Brian Agro | a hole in the ice

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"Brian Agro - preludes & poems" music for solo piano played by Thomas Bächli

You are listening to "Prelude 3, 1988".

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title	Brian Agro "a hole in the ice"	©+p 1988

musicians	Katharina Weber piano

production notes	Composed by Brian Agro Recorded September 24. 1988 By Charly Suter at Radiostudio Basel Mastered by Peter Pfister, Berikon

cover art	Silvia Bächli

reviews / liner notes etc.

In A Hole in the Ice, Katharina Weber does a wonderful job interpreting pieces Agro composed between 1980 and 1988. He seams to have been unaffected by academic trends from serialism to minimalism; if anything, he‘s a neoclassicist. While freely bitonal and chromatic, his work always hints at understandable harmonic structures, and the phrases are as clearly shaped and expressive as anything in the nineteenth century tradition. It‘s always refreshing to see talented people following their own destinies, especially when they‘re as gracious and intelligent about it as Agro.
KEYBOARD, Jim Aikin