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You have to wonder when Michael Daugherty is going to run out of iconic bits of Americana on which to base his ever-growing catalog of
Actually, there is one unambiguously great work here: Ruggles’ Sun-Treader, but it receives the least persuasive performance. David Alan Miller is, of course, a highly
Don Gillis will be known to most people, to the
Morton Gould was an excellent, even courageous composer, continuing on his chosen path of writing intelligent, approachable music that appealed to serious and casual listeners
Steven Stucky’s Son et Lumière is one of those modern, anonymous-sounding “texture” pieces, but it’s no less rewarding for that as Stucky writes for the
This extraordinary disc, which contains music by four American composers all writing in quite different styles, makes a fantastic program for continuous listening. Nikolai Lopatnikoff’s
Unlike other British composers born about the same time (1913) George Lloyd did not manage to keep out of military service when World War II
The Great American Ninth, proclaims the cover of this enterprising, excellently recorded disc. Actually, Roy Harris’ Eighth Symphony sounds like the finer piece largely on
This disc throws fascinating light on the relationship of composers to their own works, and the wisdom of the decisions they made regarding them. Roy
These are very fine performances of three worthy symphonies, issued at two discs for the price of one (the total time for all three is
