
Ernest Bloch’s Violin Concerto is rarely encountered in the concert hall despite its abundance of color, melody, emotional substance, and virtuoso opportunities. Fortunately, there are
Each of these purely instrumental symphonies takes its inspiration from the five sections of the Roman Catholic Mass Ordinary (that is, the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo,
Founded in 1980 by composer/conductor Edwin London, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony has commissioned and performed a huge range of new American music, as well as
Nicolas Flagello was one of those composers who was a skilled craftsman, and very much a member of his “school”, that school being American “neo”
This third disc in Naxos’ ongoing series devoted to George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) contains some excellent music. Fans of composers such as Vaughan Williams surely
George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) was known as the “Dean of Northwest composers”, having made a successful musical career in Seattle where he was professor of
At last! The absence of a really good disc devoted to the music of John Alden Carpenter has long been one of the most glaring
Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) came from a highly musical Massachusetts family and showed considerable compositional promise early in his life (he completed his first opera