Muhly: Seeing Is Believing; Step Team, Motion; By All Means, etc - review

Gould/Aurora O/Collon (Decca)Seeing Is Believing is Nico Muhly's violin concerto, composed for Thomas Gould and his six-string electric instrument four years ago. Like so much of Muhly's music, it is immediately engaging and fresh, with some delicious sounds and striking moments, especially the keening glissandi for the solo violin that open the work, even if in this case there are not quite enough of them to sustain the 25-minute piece convincingly. Another composition from 2007, Step Team, pro...

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