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These two settings of Samuel Beckett texts by the experimental Swiss composer Holliger are perfect musical analogues to the great dramatist's works: harrowing and comic by turns. Holliger writes incisive, lyrical lines with a perfect mastery of the sonic potentials of his instrumental media--here, a chamber opera entitled Come and Go for nine female voices, flutes, clarinets, and violas, followed by What Where, for four voices, trombone quartet, and percussion. An additional treat on this disc is the performance, on the second work, by the astonishing vocal quartet Electric Phoenix. --Joshua Cody