
Alexander Tcherepnin was a very good composer, and his six […]
This is really delightful stuff. The Symphonic Prayer and Magna mater both contrast gentle chorale textures with inventive writing for brass and percussion, and come
This is a very enjoyable disc, even though you might have favorite versions of most of this music. Lan Shui has the Singapore Symphony on
This latest installment in Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony’s Debussy series contain one major work (the Nocturnes), one almost major work (Printemps), and four
What a pleasant surprise this disc is. Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony, more properly a suite in five movements, is a charming romantic masterpiece that used
Oh, the pain, the pain! Here we have an absolutely great Paganini Rhapsody yoked to a less than fabulous version of the less popular Third
Does anyone need 71 minutes of Chinese recorder concertos? On evidence here, the answer is “yes”. This is beautiful music, often astoundingly so. Sure, there’s
Steven Stucky (b. 1949) is the very model of the modern academic composer, supported by commissions and subsidies of various kinds, and keeping down a
BIS has taken on so many worthy projects over the years that it’s difficult to keep up with them. This cycle of Tcherepnin piano concertos
There is absolutely nothing wrong, in theory, with the effort to “reclaim” Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde for Far Eastern listeners by translating the