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It’s unusual to start a CD review of Chopin’s concertos […]
This complete set of Bruckner symphonies reflects a lifetime’s engagement
Skrowaczewski is one of those conductors who seems to operate under the radar in the PR-dominated world of classical music performance. Every so often he
The notes to this recording make much of George Rochberg’s braveness in the early 1960s in turning his back on strict academic serialism and atonality.
George Rochberg composed his Violin Concerto for Issac Stern, who premiered it 1975. The work was a hit, with Stern playing it some 47 times
George Rochberg’s angry Second Symphony, written in one highly contrasted movement divided into five sections, is a 12-tone piece that sounds very much of its
Malipiero’s six piano concertos span a good bit of his long life (he died in 1973, aged 91) and they are all of a piece.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s 1998 Violin Concerto is a marvelous work that communicates immediately to the heart, yet at the same time stimulates the intellect. It
After budget box appearances on EMI and Musical Heritage Society, this outstanding Bruckner cycle hopefully has now found a permanent home on Brilliant Classics at
Touching Colors is a short (13-minute) concerto for organ and orchestra in the best tradition of German Klangfarbenmelodie, which isn’t meant to be amusing because
