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Kabalevsky’s piano concertos have been well served on disc recently, with new recordings on Naxos and Chandos. The First concerto is the most ambitious, a
Premiered by Mitropoulos in 1947, Krenek’s Fourth symphony was thought lost until its rediscovery in 2006. It’s a complex work whose movement layout and duration
Felix Weingartner’s 1912 violin concerto is decidedly late-romantic in style, its violin writing ranging from Mendelssohnian to the kind of thing you would hear in
Rodolphe Kreutzer was one of a trio of great French violinists (the others were Rode and Baillot), all followers of Viotti, who set the standard
The excerpts presented here are from operas composed between 1818 and 1828, when the very prolific Donizetti was under the influence both of his teacher,
This is a major release. Alfredo Casella’s Sinfonia is actually his Third Symphony. It was written in 1939-40 for the Chicago Symphony, enjoyed a highly
This two-disc set makes an excellent companion to CPO’s fine set of Milhaud symphonies, also conducted (very well, as here) by Alun Francis. If anything,
If you liked Karl Weigl’s Fifth, then you’ll certainly enjoy his Sixth, though it strikes me as a marginally less interesting work overall. The music
Ludwig Thuille’s music is worthless, but then what could you expect from a composer who spent two years working on the only piece for which
This is the kind of theoretically enterprising and enjoyable disc that I really want to recommend–but alas I cannot. All three of these concertos are
