RED MAPLE: MUSIC FOR BASSOON AND STRINGS; PETER KOLKAY, CALIDORE STRING QUARTET <br> BRIDGE 9587Peter Kolkay's new recording of music for bassoon and strings, Red Maple, takes its title from a work that Joan Tower wrote for Kolkay in 2013. Tower's piece is joined by fellow American composer Russell Platt's Quintet, completed in 1997. Two UK composers round out the program, with English composer Mark Anthony Turnage's Massarosa (2018) (another Kolkay dedication) and the Scottish composer Judith Weir's Wake Your Wild Voice (2008), a duo for

What remains is the warmth and humor of a true American "original"- a composer fascinated by stylistic clash and the new language that his yields

known to the world for a particular achievement

Viola includes premiere recordings of new works composed for viola by Steven Mackey (a chamber concerto)

CD Annotator Matthias Kriesberg writes

a typically spiky and rhythmically charged essay in the composer’s patented brand of polytonality

offering wild celebratory dances or cool evocations of moonlight

Alain Locke

piano or percussion

Hartmut Rohde

where fairly uncomplicated ideas are in a  constant state of growth

Linda Quan

The C-major Op