Brandeis Festival Orchestra
Izler Solomon, conductor
I loved Arthur Berger very much and love his music, all of which is of the highest quality, always his own, no matter whether in what got misleadingly called "neo-classical" or 12-tone. This piece, especially in this recording has one of the most Bergeresque qualities, of excited engagement also another, of humor and a third of being always beautiful. Arthur Berger had a knack he shared with a few other composers of always finding the right sonority for the moment in his piece. This piece uses music that he had written for piano, the Suite, though the context is different in both works, it works so well.
