Rott Symphony

Hans Rott’s single symphony enjoys what little attention it gets solely by virtue of the fact that it sounds like anyone but Hans Rott. There’s

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Tchaikovsky Strings

Now this is more like it! So many recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence sextet in string orchestra arrangement make it sound like a Mantovani

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Schnittke Works/Col Legno C

Performances of Alfred Schnittke’s music require two important elements: spot-on execution by the performers, and a palpable depth to the recording ambience. Otherwise, Schnittke’s music

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Glass Symphony

No one familiar with the music of Philip Glass would expect his Symphony No. 3 (1995) to conform to traditional sonata principles (with its requisite

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FLUX

Of the Eastern European symphonists, the 40-year-old Estonian Erkki-Sven Tüür thus far appears to be among the most original, resourceful, and the least self indulgent.

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Mozart Jarrett

Keith Jarrett’s Mozart will be familiar to anyone who purchased his first foray into this music on ECM, containing Piano Concertos Nos. 21, 23 and

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