Legacy

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“In his Symphony No. 2 Andrew Waggoner employs an “accessible” modernist musical language married to a flamboyant orchestral style…
Turning to the chamber works, Legacy: Two Movements for String Quartet opens with a bright and busily driving first movement reminiscent of John Adams’ Shaker Loops, while the second movement is less insistent and more varied. String Quartet No. 2 alternates between states of Dream and Fantasy as it progresses through six movements of increasing intensity and astringency before it resolves in the final Albedo, whose lighter mood and texture brings the work to a less stressful conclusion. The Cassatt Quartet gives bravely virtuosic readings of both works, and the clear, dynamic recording vividly recreates the performances.” -Classics Today, original article here.