
There’s a lot going for this recording of four short works by Morton Feldman, most notably the committed performances by the New Millennium Ensemble. These
The fourth release in Robert Craft’s fine Stravinsky series for Koch features a trio of works that reflect some of the composer’s major preoccupations of
Mark Kaplan’s performances of the Berg and Stravinsky violin concertos are superb–so good, in fact, that this disc would be in the top rank were
There isn’t a pressing need for a new recording of Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, even in such an elegant performance as this. Mark Kaplan is an
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s music is often criticized as being derivative, but it is engaging, well-crafted, mercifully free from gimmickry, and stylistically coherent. The earliest work
An ascending melodic figure at the beginning of Libby Larsen’s Fourth symphony unlocks the door to a shimmering string passage, in turn replaced by an
Craig Smith and his Emmanuel Music–the resident choir and instrumental group at Boston’s Emmanuel Church–have been performing Bach cantatas every Sunday for years (they’ve done
Volume 7 of Robert Craft’s ongoing Schoenberg cycle makes an excellent introduction to the composer’s almost schizophrenically wide-ranging body of work. For example, there’s his
For Stravinsky completists this is a release full of pleasant surprises, a sweep of the master’s studio floor for rarities. The homework was done and
Anthony Davis’ Tania (1992) retells the saga of Patty Hearst, the newspaper heiress who in 1974 was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), only