Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

Manén Needs A Personality

David Hurwitz

Joan Manén (1883-1971) was a locally well-known Catalan composer who apparently had serious ambitions as a creator of large-scale works. Both pieces here are very

Alfred Bruneau’s Oh So Serious Orchestral Bits, Again

David Hurwitz

This release duplicates exactly a somewhat more lively recording of the same repertoire on Marco Polo featuring James Lockhart and the Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra. To

Filling In The Gaps: Granados Orchestral Music II, A Mixed Bag

David Hurwitz

You want to love this worthy project, but Granados doesn’t

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Major Discoveries: Promising Granados from Naxos

David Hurwitz

No one really knows the orchestral music of Enrique Granados,

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Gershwin: Rhapsody; Concerto in F/Camilo SACD

Victor Carr Jr

We need to think of Rhapsody in Blue more from a jazz than a classical perspective, says jazz pianist Michael Camilo, an assertion he backs

Orchestral works by Leonardo Balada/Naxos C

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Leonardo Balada (b. 1933) is a contemporary Spanish composer heavily influenced by native Catalan folk music who also manages to transcend the imposing presence and