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On a late summer’s day in Prague in 1970, Holocaust survivor Eliška Kleinová opened a briefcase and handed a pile of music manuscripts to Joza
This disc has a lot going for it. Jon Manasse is a superb clarinetist, with a perfectly even tone in all registers, a silky legato,
Arthur Foote’s music is pleasant, conservative, and often attractive. The best piece here is the 4 Character Pieces after the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, where
Another very successful SACD: Telarc has managed sound that envelops the listener without excessive rear-channel activity or that dulling of impact that seems endemic to
A gorgeous recording, this. Gerard Schwarz recorded the luminously hymn-like Mysterious Mountain and the majestic Mount St. Helens symphonies for Delos, and those performances no
Hovhaness has found a strong advocate in Gerard Schwarz, and about time too. This prolific and at times prolix composer’s music, with its expressively limited
Walter Piston’s lovely Fourth Symphony certainly deserves greater exposure than it gets, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be popular. It begins with a
With characters named Wrestling Bradford, Praise-God Tewke (and his daughter, Plentiful), Lady Marigold Sandys, Sir Gower Lackland, Faith-Not Tinker, and Peregrine Brodrib we are obviously
The Execution of Stepan Razin is a sort of sequel to the 13th Symphony, in that it sets a poem by Yevtushenko and even shares
The more time passes, the more Leonard Bernstein’s “Kaddish” symphony sounds like an important work. It certainly does in Gerard Schwarz’s hands, as he leads
