Country

July, 1998

Bang on a Can's Music for Airports (Point) does more than reproduce Brian Eno's 1978 ambient classic. Using acoustic instruments, the chamber ensemble shows us a work of rare beauty.The delight in David Amram's Triple Concerto (Flying Fish) is that you never know what's around the corner. A quarter century after this album's premiere, the references to Charles Mingus and Aaron Copland seem more obvious, but the music still surprises.William Christie won acclaim for his previous direction of a Ra...