Seems appropriate for this thread:
Carson Cooman's Foresight spinning for contrabass and ensemble
Wassit like? (this one of the downloads from his site?)
It's quite satisfyingly meaty from what I'm hearing.
A stomach-turning metaphor if I've ever heard one. Who is this Cooman? Does s/he have a first name?
The name has been disclosed elsewhere. Having listened through the disk once now; the pieces that made the biggest impression on me first time were the dream etudes (book 2); the first one had one of these motives that was not dissimilar from something that nancarrow might come up with though in its shape, the second one sounded quite Busonian to my ears, and the third one, Ringing, had some nice weighty use of resonance and harmonics in it.
Purchased it along with what I'm assuming was a subsidised double-cd of piano music by Ernesto Halffter. Not sure what I think of it yet; I don't fully get the purported influence by Scarlatti on the sonatas more than the fact of their one-movement sonata form and shortish lengths.
OH, the meaty metaphore. SINCEREST apologies if you guys found it a little unsavoury (ho ho ho). I don't know if I would apply it at all now having listened to the whole disk, nor to the tracks to which I initially thought it would apply. What I
think that I mmeant by it, in case it was terribly oblique, was that I was able to quickly familiarise myself with the styles involved.
