Vecchia; Francesco La

Respighi Orchestral Works Vol. 2: Partial Redemption

David Hurwitz

This is definitely better than La Vecchia’s Volume 1 in […]

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CD from Hell: Disappointing Respighi from an Expert

David Hurwitz

Francesco La Vecchia is a Respighi expert, with a pick-up

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Wolf-Ferrari’s Increasingly Popular Wind Concertinos

David Hurwitz

This is the third recording of these charming Wolf-Ferrari works to come out in the past few years. It’s easy to understand why. The music

Malipiero: Orchestral Works

David Hurwitz

It’s always difficult to speak authoritatively about performances of unfamiliar music, but these works are so strange, so beautiful, and so remarkable that criticism is

Casella: Cello Concerto, etc

David Hurwitz

Notte di maggio is a gorgeous, impressionistic tone poem for voice and orchestra dating from 1913, making it one of Alfredo Casella’s early works. Full

Casella: Symphony No. 2

David Hurwitz

It never rains, it pours in the classical music business. Just as Chandos releases a fine recording of Alfredo Casella’s Mahler-meets-Borodin Second Symphony, along comes

Casella: Symphony No. 1

David Hurwitz

If Alfredo Casella didn’t completely disavow his First Symphony, he did write it off to the point of re-using the gorgeous slow movement (re-scored) in

Martucci: Symphony No. 1, etc

Jed Distler

Slowly but surely Giuseppe Martucci’s orchestral music is making headway on CD. In 2007 Brilliant Classics reissued ASV’s complete cycle, while my colleague Victor Carr