Music of Jeffrey Mumford

Jeffrey Mumford, a composer who studied with modernist lions Elliott Carter and Bernard Rands, has an uncanny knack for writing music that plays rigorous but sounds painterly, a point neatly made by through a stillness brightening, a two-CD compendium on the Albany label. Here, you can catch three of the artists involved in that set—violinist Miranda Cuckson, cellist Julia Bruskin and pianist Steven Beck—in live renditions of Mumford's works.