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Something strange has happened to Vladimir Válek. His formerly admirable emphasis on clean rhythm has degenerated into a generalized stiffness, most evident in his recent
The top half of Vladimír Valék’s Tchaikovsky Symphony cycle has a lot going for it. For starters there’s the remarkably fresh and well-groomed playing of
Wow! I thought to myself, a new Dvorák symphony cycle from a conductor I have always enjoyed for his snappy sense of rhythm and ability
Vladimir Válek has a good sense of rhythm that generally serves him well in this colorful music, and heaven knows the Czech Philharmonic can play
Upon emigrating to the United States in 1938, Hungarian composer George Barati (1913-96) took up studies with Roger Sessions at Princeton. Barati was deeply influenced
Martinu’s brilliant and witty double piano concerto belongs to a long list of his works unaccountably neglected in today’s concert halls. Composed in 1943 during
David L. Post’s Symphony No. 1 (1995) invites the listener in with its primarily tonal construction on traditional symphonic techniques. The music’s harmonic palette is
The music of Nicholas Underhill is hard to define. It sounds like everything–or nothing at all. His Piano Concerto (1993) opens with a banal, minimalistic,
