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This is a vanity project, plain and simple. The person […]
Critics and fans alike like to say that Philip Glass composes music that is either riveting or dull. Whatever, count this new symphony among the
Philip Glass’ 15 minutes of quasi-popular fame may be a thing of the past, but he has gone on to create a very impressive body
This symphony has balls. There’s no coy foolishness surrounding the number nine, and no quasi-mystical hooha. What we get is simply a fine piece of
These are wonderful works, especially the neglected First Symphony, with its vicious opening movement, jazzy central Adagio, and “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” finale. Dennis Russell Davies is
In the fearless spirit of Morimur–this label’s “Bach project”, which reached unprecedented Britney-Spears-level sales–ECM now offers another piece of musical derring-do centered around a scholarly
Some of the material on this four-disc set was recently reissued on New World Records (Solstice and Ariadne), albeit coupled with additional works not found
Complete Haydn cycles haven’t been lucky on disc, so thank God we have at least one very good one (Dorati’s). This from Dennis Russell Davies
Roger Sessions once famously remarked that he never wrote a tune that he couldn’t sing. This begs the question of exactly what his singing voice
An arrangement of another’s music, says UCLA Director Emeritus of Bands Jonathan Elkus, must “fulfill or exceed on its own terms the musical values of
