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These are competent performances, warmly recorded, but there’s little else worth noting. Slatkin elicits playing from the St. Louis strings that’s smooth to the point
I wish I could be more wholeheartedly enthusiastic about this latest installment in Naxos’ and Alsop’s ongoing Barber series, especially as the Essays get terrific
Touching Colors is a short (13-minute) concerto for organ and orchestra in the best tradition of German Klangfarbenmelodie, which isn’t meant to be amusing because
This is the first recording of Samuel Barber’s superb Vanessa since the original cast recording in 1958. That one (on RCA, now unavailable) presented the
If you have any sort of American Music section as part of your CD collection, consider this a “must have” disc. On it you will
Sonically speaking, these live 1993/94 concert performances are of more than adequate archival quality, but they’re not up to the industry’s best standards. That said,
This reissue, a compilation from two Collins Classics recordings from 1992 and 1994, contains some excellent performances–notably the Tippett Spirituals and the Poulenc Sept Répons–but
There’s some major music here, smashingly played. Most exciting for fans of the duo piano medium will be the two pieces by Vincent Persichetti, a
This ASV Platinum Barber collection presents familiar works along with some rarities. The ever-popular Adagio for Strings receives a noble and impassioned performance under Barber
Hilary Hahn continues to impress. Her Barber ranks with the finest available, and moreover, does so by taking a personal approach to the music, far
