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This may be one of the least abrasive albums of contemporary music you'll ever hear. On this culture-melding disc, violinist Gidon Kremer and harpist Naoko Yoshino explore the dizzying roots and offshoots of modern compositions from the Far East and Europe. Every work on
Insomnia--whether written by John Cage, Arvo Pärt, or Richard Strauss--seems to share influences and similarities with the next. While Japanese composer Michio Miyagi (1894-1956) was looking to France for influences on
Haru no umi, Erik Satie (1866-1925) was looking to the East on the preludes to
Le Fils des Étoiles. The comparisons are fascinating, and Kremer and Yoshino make this difficult music sound easy and hypnotic. Especially effective: Pärt's gorgeous
Spiegel im Spiegel and Schnittke's almost New Age-sounding "Pantomime" (from
Suite in the Old Style). Great stuff for modern lovers.
--Jason Verlinde