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This coupling interestingly mirrors the popular pairing of Roy Harris and William Schuman’s Third symphonies (most recently done by Leonard Bernstein with the New York
Robert Craft leads a thrilling performance of Oedipus Rex, incisive, swift, and as mercilessly inevitable as fate itself. From the opening bars, where those spine-chilling
This disc contains arguably the two finest performances of Les Noces and Threni (Lamentations of Jeremiah) currently available (not that there’s much competition in the
The poetic title of this CD conceals an attractive anthology of 20th century piano music, continuously balanced between East and West and cleverly presented by
During the past few years Christoph Eschenbach has slowly built a reputation that marks him as one of today’s best conductors. Because he hasn’t enjoyed
This is the world premiere recording of the chamber version of Aaron Copland’s only opera, The Tender Land, arranged by Murray Sidlin and enthusiastically sanctioned
What choral singer who’s performed English-language music during the past 50 years hasn’t sung Randall Thompson’s Alleluia, or The Peaceable Kingdom, or Frostiana? Of course,
This is one of those recordings you want to like because the band plays with evident dedication–but you just can’t, and it’s all the conductor’s
Although I didn’t have the pleasure of hearing “A Cappella I”, I know this excellent choir first-hand, hearing it live at its home-base, New York’s
The disc begins with a long (five-minute) Sarum plainsong hymn, “A solis ortus cardine”. This may have made perfect intellectual/textual sense vis-à-vis the program’s design–a
