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Franz Schmidt was an inconsistent composer, and his Variations on a Hussar’s Song is an odd work. The best thing about it is the song;
Franz Schmidt composed his Third Symphony in 1927/28, entering it in the Columbia Gramophone Co.’s “tribute to Schubert” competition, where it came in second to
There’s no question that Pieter Wispelwey delivers an exceptional performance of Prokofiev’s strange and occasionally awkward Sinfonia concertante. The work’s odd structure–two andantes enclosing a
That Franz Schmidt’s 1899 Symphony No. 1 met with greater success than Mahler’s contemporaneous Symphonies Nos. 1-3 seems surprising to us today, until we consider
Why is it that so much of this music is neglected today? It’s lively, tuneful, immaculately crafted, fabulously scored (naturally), and it would grace any
This is the third volume in Chandos’ ongoing series of Shostakovich film music, which has been receiving a great deal of attention on disc. All
The main item in this second volume of Shostakovich film music on Chandos is the popular Suite from The Gadfly, whose “Romance” became an instant
It’s good to have a new, well-played and -recorded collection of music by this most lazy of composers, best known as the guy whose inaction
The ghosts of Shostakovich and Prokofiev hang over Kabalevsky’s two piano concertos, the second of which makes a far more imposing impression than the third,
This extremely well played and vividly recorded disc offers an excellent overview of Shostakovich’s work as a film composer. More importantly, it relates his output
