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Available Now on CAPSTONE Records:
Harold Boatrite - Sonatas and Suites
Sonata for Flute and Piano Pamela Guidetti, Flute Marcantonio Barone, Piano Lyric Suite for Piano Jennifer Lim, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano Glenn Fischbach, Cello Hugh Sung, Piano Seven Miniatures for Piano Temple Painter, Piano Sonata-Fantasia for Harpsichord Temple Painter, Harpsichord Sonata for Piano David Bryant, Piano Suite for Harpsichord Temple Painter, Harpsichord
“The music of Harold Boatrite presented here represents his productive ‘Chamber Music’ period of 1955-65. This music stands as not only noble, strong, and deeply expressive, but as an exemplary solution of one of the great compositional problems of the twentieth century: the reconciliation of tonality with chromaticism (the free use of all twelve tones). Boatrite's solution represents a logical, evolutionary step in Western music, using traditional forms in fresh and inventive ways and juxtaposing and combining diatonic with chromatic passages in a way that always keeps the music moving purposefully. No mannerism or self consciousness here! Just formal integrity, contrapuntal skill, crunchy harmonic sophistication, and well-placed climaxes and resolutions. Each piece of proposes a different formal problem and solves it brilliantly and communicatively.
A treat is in store for the listener.”
John Davison, Haverford College
Available at Tower Records Classical Annex,
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CAPSTONE RECORDS
252 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11205
Recorded at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, 1997 by Joe Hannigan. Mastered at Weston Sound.
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