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Reviews . . .
Richard Taruskin on Ezra Pound's first opera Le Testament: ". . . a modernist triumph. . ."
(New York Times 27 July 2003)
"has historic interest"
(American Record Guide, Sept/Oct 2003)
"[is] fresh and fascinating . . . No one . . . is claiming that Pound belongs in the pantheon of great composers, but this idiosyncratic body of work proves to be full of rare pleasures and well worth hearing"
(Joshua Rosenblum, Opera News, August 2003)
"Of all the poets who've dabbled in music, Ezra Pound was the most ambitious . . . the performances have a strange intensity, like a cross between Carmina Burana and Diamanda Galas. . . . There's a passion in this music which is compelling"
(Ivan Hewett, BBC Music Magazine, August 2003)
"The music was not quite a musician's music, though it may well be the finest poet's music since Thomas Campion. . . . It bore family resemblances unmistakable to the Socrate of Satie; and its sound has remained in my memory"
(Virgil Thomson in Virgil Thomson)
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