When piano pedagogues want to assign classical period works that are somewhat manageable for young students, they often choose sonatinas by the Danish composer and
Vagn Holmboe’s 20 numbered string quartets constitute one of the 20th century’s most substantial and rewarding bodies of work in the genre. Collectors have come
Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) considered The Tempered Piano to be the central achievement among his staggeringly prolific keyboard output. This magnum opus is made up
Christopher Rouse was one of the very few recent composers
If you draw a squiggly line between Brahms, Sibelius, and Einojuhani Rautavaara and put down your palm flat in the middle, you’ll have arrived, more
The full title of this work is “12 Studies on ‘blue’ scale tones and intervals”, and it alerts us to the fact that these are
If you don’t know Danish composer Ole Buck, you’ve been
Nielsen was a high energy composer, perfectly suited to a “muscle” orchestra like the New York Philharmonic. Listening to these two performance we are reminded
Between its Nielsen cycle with the New York Philharmonic and
These are strong, exciting performances of symphonies that demand the sort of bold muscularity in their execution that these artists offer. In Alan Gilbert’s hands