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Major Discoveries: Foss Symphonies, At Last

David Hurwitz

Lukas Foss was a tremendously talented and eclectic composer. His […]

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Video Review: Superb Shapero from BMOP

David Hurwitz

Please click below for the video review. The Bottom Line: This exceptional disc of Shapero’s perennially fresh and still largely unknown orchestral music is self-recommending.

A New Recording of Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts

Jed Distler

Virgil Thomson candidly and accurately predicted that his posthumous fame as a composer would rest on his two operatic collaborations with Gertrude Stein. He finished

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BMOP Sound

Major Discoveries: Foss Symphonies, At Last

Video Review: Superb Shapero from BMOP

A New Recording of Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts

Dausgaard Plays A Mean Mahler 10

A Mahler Cycle From–You Guessed It–Dusseldorf

CD From Hell: Bad Transfers of Kletzki’s Embarrassing Mahler 1 and 9

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