I love Riley's minimalism when it hypnotizes, and the title track finds that stride from time to time. But the grounded instrumentation of the Kronos Quartet dispels all magic, the majority of the recording sounding like a showy wank. I'm impressed they strung this all together, but I am not overwhelmed.
Philistine doubledown: I straight don't like the sounds of these instruments on their own. Maybe its the production, maybe or my tin ears, but the cadenzas interspersed through Cadenza on the Night Plain were a gauntlet to be endured 2.5/5
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