Kathryn Mueller gave a haunting performance of The History of Red

“Soprano Kathryn Mueller, for whom the piece was written, gave a haunting performance, whether she was confiding dark musings in the lower range or launching lofty melismatic lines with laser-like intensity. A chamber-scale orchestra supported her with heaving urgency in the strings, burbling woodwinds, and resourceful percussion, by turns restless and glistening.”