Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
William Schuman is one of those composers you want to like, but he doesn’t always make it easy. Both the tuneful Orchestral Song and the
Kurt Weill’s The Eternal Road (1937) was by far his most ambitious theater work, involving more than 250 performers on five stages (as well as
Gerard Schwarz’s David Diamond symphony recordings originally appeared on the Delos label in the early 1990s. They remain impressive (though unfortunately still rare) documents of
Along with Ernest Bloch’s Sacred Service, Milhaud’s Service Sacré is one of the relatively rare major works of Jewish liturgy that are as amenable to
Robert Starer’s K’li zemer concerto will be a surprise to anyone who associates the term with weddings and bar mitzvahs. Actually the Yiddish klezmer (instrumental
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has a long tradition of Mahler performance dating back to the stewardship of Charles Groves. Under Libor Pesek the orchestra recorded
American classical music didn’t really get hopping until Paris became Europe’s musical capital between the two World Wars, and Nadia Boulanger set herself up to
It’s so comforting to know that these excellent performances will have a new lease on life courtesy of Naxos. David Diamond’s First Symphony (1841) is
It’s a mystery why David Diamond has not been generally acclaimed as one of the top handful of American symphonists. His Third Symphony has everything:
Richard Stoltzman, long a champion of contemporary music, presents four striking new works, all composed in the 1990s. Stoltzman brings a deep understanding of and
