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There’s something comforting about this defiantly relaxed, gracious, unashamedly big-band Gershwin disc. Today, when “authenticity” is all the rage, and small forces the name of
Although his brief life prevented him from being particularly prolific (he died in 1950, aged 55), E.J. Moeran was a fine composer with a distinctive
What with the dodgy availability of Mauric Peress’ benchmark Musicmasters
This disc contains a wealth of relatively unfamiliar music, although all of it has been recorded before. Holst’s “The Cotswolds” Symphony deserves credit for its
It may seem odd to praise a release for what it does not contain, but leaving out Rhapsody in Blue really was a good idea.
The greatest Czech artists have recorded this music, but they yield surprisingly little to JoAnn Falletta and her Buffalo players. If perhaps the winds aren’t
It says something good about our contemporary musical life that major works such as these are available in multiple recordings. This is a wonderfully smart
How Marcel Tyberg’s Third Symphony wound up in Buffalo is an interesting story, related in the booklet notes to this world-premiere recording. Tyberg (1893-1944) was
On evidence here, Jack Gallagher (b. 1947) is a composer of considerable ability. He wrote the notes to this release, not necessarily a good idea,
It’s sad that these pieces aren’t performed more often; even the delicious Variations seems to have fallen by the wayside. Ernö von Dohnányi was a
