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This is a very strange release. Apparently at some point in his career, Carl Orff (of Carmina Burana fame) thought about making an “Orffed-up” version
This interesting and enjoyable program is worth having for the three least-familiar works, each enjoying (I believe) its CD premiere. Frederic Austin is best known
As many independent labels have demonstrated to the delight of music lovers everywhere, there are innumerable fine “second tier” or provincial orchestras that on any
York Bowen’s Second Symphony of 1911 has its charms, most of them involving the way he cribs from Tchaikovsky without ever approaching that master’s gift
From the Archives of Unjustly Neglected Danish Composers comes this surprisingly pleasurable disc of symphonies by Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850-1926), a composer who spent the
Douglas Bostock’s Nielsen Symphonies 1 & 6, being free of the stultifying blandness of his previously issued Nos. 3 & 4, are the best so
Volume 3 of Classico’s Carl Nielsen Edition continues its failure to produce recommendable performances of the major works. The Inextinguishable is an especially challenging work
Fibich’s music lives in the shadow of his contemporaries and countrymen, Smetana and Dvorák. Orchestrally speaking, he’s at his best in the three symphonies, where
It’s Douglas Bostock’s unhappy fate to be championing “rare” repertoire that isn’t as rare as it used to be–and rightly so since Viteslav Novák’s vintage
These assorted marches, songs, and orchestral trivia add little of importance to our understanding of Elgar as a composer, and they certainly don’t enhance his
