Frederic CHIN , piano. Nocturnes , complete. David Allen WEHR , piano. Compelling reading by a young American master pianist. This recording received the 1997 Critics Choice Award from National Public Radio .
Piano Works .
Critic Philip Kennicott especially liked the Variations on a Polish Theme . Stabat Mater, Litany to Virgin Mary, Veni Creator, Demeter and Penthesilea . He further laments the absence of a text, which makes it an incomplete recording of a vocal work in a foreign tongue. Too bad, because these are especially beautiful works and the composer's extraordinarily careful efforts in selecting poems deserve a fuller presentation. Also in Gramophone .