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Early on in his recording career José Serebrier recorded a very good Dvorák Eighth in Australia (issued on RCA), so his affinity for this music
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen’s Passacaglia of 1928, music of unaffected grandeur and nobility, is one of the monuments of the Scandinavian orchestral repertoire. It receives a powerful
The big discovery here is Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Concertino of 1948. It sounds for all the world like a Russian take on Barber’s concerto: highly lyrical,
Michael Daugherty manages to have his musical cake and eat it too. His music’s eclectic “pop” elements rub shoulders with thoroughly modern compositional techniques. Time
Ashley Wass and James Judd turn in a finely wrought and atmospheric performance of Bax’s Winter Legends–a piano concerto in all but name. A Bax
This stuff is simply gorgeous. Ned Rorem’s symphonies are shot through with long, lyrical melodies that some observers might relate to his gifts as a
Here are Shostakovich’s two largest, purely instrumental “program” symphonies in a handy two-for-the-price-of-one package. Paavo Berglund’s 1974 recording of the Seventh gains a modicum of
This is an exciting release of excellent music by one of Russia’s greatest living composers (except that the last time I checked the Shchedrins were
José Serebrier is obviously a very talented composer, and it’s good that Naxos is giving him the opportunity to record his music under optimal conditions.
Arthur Bliss is a hard composer to place. He maintained a very high standard of craftsmanship throughout his long career (he died at 84 in
