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Alexander Tcherepnin was a very good composer, and his six […]
This is really delightful stuff. The Symphonic Prayer and Magna mater both contrast gentle chorale textures with inventive writing for brass and percussion, and come
This latest installment in Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony’s Debussy series contain one major work (the Nocturnes), one almost major work (Printemps), and four
What a pleasant surprise this disc is. Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony, more properly a suite in five movements, is a charming romantic masterpiece that used
Oh, the pain, the pain! Here we have an absolutely great Paganini Rhapsody yoked to a less than fabulous version of the less popular Third
Steven Stucky (b. 1949) is the very model of the modern academic composer, supported by commissions and subsidies of various kinds, and keeping down a
BIS has taken on so many worthy projects over the years that it’s difficult to keep up with them. This cycle of Tcherepnin piano concertos
There is absolutely nothing wrong, in theory, with the effort to “reclaim” Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde for Far Eastern listeners by translating the
Sea compilations aren’t all that unusual, but few are as good as this. Lan Shui’s La Mer not only shimmers idiomatically, but it has an
Alexander Tcherepnin’s Third Symphony sounds a lot like Stravinsky’s Petrushka with Chinese tunes. It’s a brilliant piece of work and an unusual one too, in
