Unfinished Business

Zaba - Unfinished BusinessUnfinished Business is a CD of music by Toronto based composer Tristan Zaba.  It’s mostly songs for soprano (McKenzie Warriner) and piano (Paul Williamson) but the second and longest track; Matryoski and Blue Vase is a solo piano piece that plays with different textures and densities; sometimes very spare, sometimes very busy, for twelve minutes.  There’s also a shorter, ceaselessly busy piece Swan Dive.

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Opera by Request do Rossini’s Otello

Rossini-OtelloRossini’s Otello is an interesting piece with a completely different plot to the Shakespeare/Verdi version.  It’s entirely set in Venice for a start.  For more details on the plot and the not insignificant casting demands you might find the first few paragraphs of my review of a 2012 recording from Zurich helpful.

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