After the Rain

After the Rain

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This is a CD single; it's only 24 minutes long, but that's all you need here. Barry Guy's music is a heady mixture of polytonalities that shifts from tonal to atonal at the proverbial drop of a hat. After the Rain is based on a Max Ernst painting Europe after the Rain. While the work is formally structured, Guy pushes his music through a sonic meat grinder to see what comes out. Parts are lyrical and heartrending; others, particularly the "antiphon" sections, have the violins shrilling almost impossibly with glissandos up through the registers. A stunning achievement. --Paul Cook

After the Rain, Music, Barry Guy, Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Classical

After the Rain

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