Charles Wuorinen, William Sydeman, Lawrence Moss

Featuring: Jean Wentworth, Kenneth Wentworth

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The piano duo of Jean and Kenneth Wentworth spent their career commissioning and playing new American music for four hands, and this Desto record collects some of the fruits. The centrepiece is a Concerto for Piano Four Hands and Chamber Orchestra, flanked by Omaggio, Kousochki and Making Ends Meet, with music by Charles Wuorinen, William Sydeman and Lawrence Moss.

It is a portrait of the East Coast modernism of the sixties and seventies, dense, rhythmically sharp and unafraid of complexity, from the label that, together with CRI, documented much of the American contemporary scene of the time.