Night Rivers, Symphony No. 3 (1992)
Bridges, Symphony No. 4 (2019)
Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound (1998)
Concertante for Clarinet and Orchestra (1994)
- Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet) - Warsaw Philharmonic
From Time to Time, Fantasias on Two Appalachian Folksongs (2000)

If you have yet to experience the music of American composer Anthony Iannaccone (b. 1943), this 2-Disc collection, which brings together early and recent works into a nice, tidy package, would be a great place to start. His music, despite being current, is completely removed from the amorphous, desultory, unstructured meanderings so prevalent today. Not to say that its instantly congenial or coherent either. He strings together many variant ideas and motifs, which at times overlap into a slightly chaotic soup boiling over with conflicting ingredients. But its precisely these conflicts that drive the music forward, buoyed along by propulsive rhythmic forces and percussively bolstered orchestration.

When all of these elements come together and achieve resolution, as in the mysterious ending of Night Rivers or the dramatically boisterous coda of the single-movement Concertante for Clarinet and Orchestra, you realize that all of these divergent roads, interconnected by a deep underlying lyricism, were all leading to the same place. If you had been bemoaning the fact that new music had permanently changed the rules of the game, I would encourage you to listen to the music of Anthony Iannaccone. Composers like him would agree that just like you can't mess with the laws of physics, you shouldn't mess with the laws of music.