
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s 1998 Violin Concerto is a marvelous work that communicates immediately to the heart, yet at the same time stimulates the intellect. It
Eric Ruske selects works from the high points of the romantic era (at least as far as horn music goes) and delivers the goods with
It’s kind of funny that a disc called “The Romance of the Violin” contains not a single piece of original violin music, but this particular
Hearing this disc got me to thinking, which I know is probably a mistake but please bear with me. If you studied music over the
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s music is often criticized as being derivative, but it is engaging, well-crafted, mercifully free from gimmickry, and stylistically coherent. The earliest work