(2005) Schoeck: The Three Violin Sonatas & the Albumblatt nbr_cd:iTunes Taeko Kuwata

Taeko Kuwata

but less of an artist”

organist at St

Metropolitan Opera New York

a world first both in terms of her age as well as quality

(2005) Schoeck: The Three Violin Sonatas & the Albumblatt nbr_cd:iTunes Taeko KuwataModern, an adjective that brings everything to a stop as soon as the talk is of music. And yet what could be more vague than such a classification? Today is no different than yesterday; there are as many styles of modern music as there are composers. And thus Othmar Schoecks music captures dominant characteristics of the time not merely because he lived during the first half of the 20th century. Reminiscent of Puccini or the later works of Saint Sans,