Glissandi are liberally employed, heightening the tonal ambivalence of the work, and elevating it to the status of one of Hovhaness's most exotic, evocative, and otherworldly scores. The back of the jewelbox is mislabeled. The two sections of Kohar are on tracks five and six, not on five alone as indicated. This has been my first exposure to Richard Auldon Clark and his Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. He is an imaginative conductor with the ability to find wholly workable and communicative tempo relationships in this sometimes intractable repertoire.
Instrumental balances are strikingly effective.
The recording is both detailed and spacious, adding up to a fine addition to Hovhaness's growing discography. Eugene Corporon conducting the Cincinnati Wind Symphony. Hearts Music . Concerto for Twenty-three Winds . Ronald Searle Suite .