
Einar Englund’s incidental music to The Great Wall of China […]
Enescu’s Third Symphony is one of those “everything including the
Here’s an important, adventurous release. Enescu’s Second Symphony, composed around
It’s interesting how the sound of the male voice in Sibelius’ songs tends to highlight the music’s heroic and edgy qualities. This is especially so
Panufnik’s music seems to be getting little attention since his death in 1991, and it’s not hard to understand why. Writers on the composer tend
If you enjoy big, hairy, colorful, exuberant, generously overscored, quasi-tonal modern symphonies, than you’ll love this ebullient example from Jouni Kaipainen. Written in three big
Without question Peteris Vasks is one of the major composers active today. His Third Symphony does everything that a fine new work in the form
Ondine’s exciting new John Corigliano collection presents what presumably is the world-premiere orchestral recording of Phantasmagoria (Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax offered a chamber version
Erkki Salmenhaara (1941-2002) was yet another of those composers who in the 1960s turned his back on serialism and returned to tonal roots, creating some
Peteris Vasks’ Violin Concerto (“Distant Light”) was written for Gidon Kremer, who very capably recorded it for Teldec. However, although Kremer is a fine musician