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It’s a mystery why David Diamond has not been generally acclaimed as one of the top handful of American symphonists. His Third Symphony has everything:
Yup, it’s that damn Four Seasons again. I had taken a solemn vow never to give it another listen. But going cold turkey isn’t all
The “concept” here seems to be nothing more ambitious than creating an album that is “pretty”–and so it is in a very superficial sense. However,
Making a welcome reappearance on CD, Symphony No. 22 “City of Light” contains some of Hovhaness’ most extended thoughts, particularly in its extremely grand finale.
A previous Audite release introduced the string quartets of Eduard Franck, a friend and pupil of Felix Mendelssohn (see review Q6308). His eldest son Richard
Decca’s Prokofiev compilation offers all of the composer’s concerted works in one three-disc package. The main attraction, the 1975 Ashkenazy/Previn Piano Concerto cycle, offers Ashkenazy’s
This new BIS release has virtually everything you want in a recording of Dvorák’s Cello Concerto: bold, impassioned, and technically assured playing (by Torleif Thedéen),
Judging from the CD cover and credits, you’d assume that “Foss plays Mozart” represents a one-man show, even if you manage to discover from the
The full-bodied instrumental writing in Max Reger’s four-movement F major cello sonata (written in 1904) almost needs an orchestra to do it justice. Not only
In its autumnal mood, Brahms’ E minor cello sonata Op. 38 looks forward some three decades to the composer’s final chamber works–or at least it
