Alliances ..., for cello & piano

• Date: 1989
• Composer: Irwin Bazelon
• Period: Modern (1910-1949)

Review

Irwin Bazelon was born in Chicago in 1922, was a student of Darius Milhaud and had a successful career both in concert music and in film scoring. His music tends to be tonal and in accepted academic forms and techniques.

"Alliances ... Cello and Piano" is an extended work at seventeen minutes. It stresses the differences in sound of the two instrument, and portrays them as equal characters in a musical drama where they are both protagonists and antagonists. The two instruments' parts designed to create the impression of separate musical personalities. Neither ever "accompanies" the other; usually they either go their own way (and each receives an equally important solo section) or interact with each other. ~ Joseph Stevenson, Rovi

Albums with Complete Performances of the Work

Title	Date
Bazelon: Symphony No. 8 1/2	1993

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