Rudich - Karl Kohn: Encounters (Complete Works for Flute)

Karl Kohn is represented on this impressive two-disc set by all of his solo and chamber music for flute. Kohn writes that my music since the early 1960�s has been firmly re-connected with the broader heritage of Western art music, either by specific and direct quotation or 'parody', or - prevailingly - by more oblique allusions to characteristics of past style. Though he has spent seven decades working in California, the 95 year old composer writes that I am struck how it seems to reflect, first, my Viennese musical heritage, and then my training in a neo-classical tradition. The performances feature the American flute virtuoso, Rachel Rudich, the dedicatee of many of Kohn's works.