When I visited Warsaw last winter, I was happy to pick up several recordings containing music of Agata Zubel, one of the most gifted of younger Polish composers. There is now a strong compilation on the Kairos label, the principal item being her grittily expressive Beckett setting NOT I. The composer herself, a vocalist of high accomplishment and distinctive timbre, sings in this work and in Aphorisms on Miłosz; Clement Power conducts the Klangforum Wien in a program that also includes Labyrinth and Shades of Ice.
Published on May 12, 2014 18:05