Muhly: I Drink the Air Before Me

Young People's Chorus of New York/Sopp/Baer/Clayville/Muhly/Sirota/Coale(Decca)With a disc of Nico Muhly's choral works also out this month, Decca seems to have taken up the music of the 29-year-old composer in a big way. This CD is devoted to the ballet score commissioned by Stephen Petronio's company and performed in March last year. Muhly's own sleevenotes reveal that his brief was to include a children's choir and that the subject matter should relate to extremes of weather, anxiety and liv...

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