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This disc offers about an hour’s worth of choice bits from Borodin’s Prince Igor. On one hand, we find the usual selections, including the ever-popular
Shostakovich wrote a lot of light music but not necessarily a lot of great light music. The Jazz Suite No. 2 (compiled by others) is
This attractive three-disc set claims to present the “complete” overtures and tone poems, and it does nothing of the kind. What it does offer is
Chadwick’s Second Symphony is a surprisingly original work for an American composer writing in 1886, and it wears its years lightly, particularly in the scherzo–which
The main competition for this material comes from Riccardo Chailly’s excellent selection of film and dance music for Decca. While the repertoire is not identical,
In their recent excellent recording of Pictures at an Exhibition and other Mussorgsky goodies, the NSOU’s sometimes rough and ready sonority actually plays to the
Richard Toensing’s spastic, Berg-like Concerto for Flutes and Wind Ensemble is a piece that flies by in no time, fast and furious, palatably atonal but
Theodore Kuchar’s authoritative way with 20th century Russian symphonies has been well documented in his Prokofiev recordings on Naxos. He is no less masterful in
From the Realm of the Shadow is Christopher Mohr’s artistic response to his near-participation in a college gang rape. That he chose to rescue the
Morton Gould’s music has not lacked for champions (curiously enough one was the great Greek maestro and advocate of “difficult” 20th century music, Dimitri Mitropoulos),
