Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller, cond.; Hila Plitmann, soprano; American Music Festival Chorus Albany Records Troy1915 (24/96 WAV). 2022. Silas Brown/Legacy Sound, eng.
David Del Tredici’s quarter-century has been the stuff of audiophile legend ever since soprano Barbara Hendricks and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georg Solti recorded (1974–1975) for Decca. It and (1980)—part of the larger (1977–81) and winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Music—only provide two pieces of an extremely complex, frequently phantasmagoric that can induce a drugless altered state of unfettered wonder.
