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This release completes CPO’s excellent cycle of Saygun symphonies in […]
Saygun’s Third Symphony is a masterpiece, reflecting both the composer’s
Richard Wetz’s ultra-conservative Third Symphony, like his second, resembles sort
CPO begins yet another new and exciting series dedicated to a little-known but worthy composer. German/Dutch composer Julius Röntgen (1855-1935) wrote a huge quantity of
There have been three recordings of Kullervo released in SACD surround-sound this year: this one, Davis (LSO), and Spano (Telarc). Is there something the industry
CPO’s new Aulis Sallinen disc opens with the dark and dramatic Shadows, where the composer’s skill at mood-setting and cinematic scene-painting, as well as creating
Ernst Boehe’s late-romantic, post-Wagnerian symphonic poems abound in rich harmonies and lush orchestral textures, with much declamatory and heroic writing for the brass. Part Four
Max Deutsch’s music for the 1923 silent film Der Schatz reportedly was the first film score to be presented as a legitimate work for the
While Otto Klemperer’s formidable conductorial talent is indisputable, his compositional gifts were marginal at best. The works on this new CPO disc are all highly
This seven-CD box gathers together the complete orchestral music of Wagner’s hapless son Siegfried, an amiable composer of modest gifts who spent his life like
