Melinda Wagner

Romanze With Faux Variations

Network for New Music; the incomparable ensemble which has; in its first 20 years; commissioned; premiered; and presented more than 500 new and innovative works; has recorded Melinda Wagner's second piano trio on Albany Records (Troy838). Of this recording; David Hurwitz (at classicstoday.com) writes; 'Melinda Wagner's Romanze with Faux Variations is a single-movement piano trio in several loosely connected episodes. The cute title basically says it all: the episodes aren't really variations in the strict sense; but it all hangs together and features some very exciting ensemble writing in the process.' Romanze joins our growing catalog of works by Melinda Wagner; recipient of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Music.