Adler: Choose Life; Piano Concerto No. 2; Acrostics

"[Samuel Adler's] early works are diatonic (in a Pistonian sort of way), his music from the 60s and 70s more chromatic, and his recent stuff somewhere in between...This new Albany release displays his recent endeavors in three genres - mixed Chamber ensemble, concerto, and cantata....Adler's Second Piano Concerto of 1997, also cast in four movements, is a big, bravura work that gives soloist Alan Feinberg a hard night's workout but allows considerable opportunity for lyricism in the slow movement's rippling figurations and veiled string harmonies....Performances are pretty good (Feinberg is outstanding); sound is clear and high-impact but airless and unforgiving, emphasizing the ruggedness of Adler's music." (American Record Guide)