Andres: Shy and Mighty | CD review

Andres/Kaplan(Nonesuch)Timothy Andres is the latest young composer (born in 1985) to burst on to the new-music scene from New York, trailing garlands of praise in his wake. Trained at the Juilliard School and Yale University, Andres is unquestionably a distinctive talent, with a fine teasing ear for texture and harmony, and this first disc, an album-length sequence of 10 pieces for two pianos with the collective title of Shy and Mighty, shows where his musical roots lie. Andres himself freely ad...

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