
Robert Craft maintains a clear rhythmic pulse in Pelleas und Melisande, helping to clarify the contrapuntal lines, which is a great boon in this hopelessly
The four works included on this CD were composed in the very short (for a composer) time-span of 12 months, during 1990-91. Although they are
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Richard Wilson is the composer of more than 70 works, an oeuvre that comprises every genre, including opera. The four
Robert Craft’s successful survey of Schoenberg’s orchestral and chamber works continues with this important disc, which couples Schoenberg’s (recently) popular orchestration of the Brahms G
No composer in history was more constitutionally incapable of repeating himself than Arnold Schoenberg. If the theory of 12-tone composition states that no single note
Volume Three of Robert Craft’s Stravinsky series for Koch duplicates repertoire on his similar series for MusicMasters–this latter effort appearing to have ended somewhat short
It should be enough to say that Joan Tower is one of the world’s most successful, busiest, and respected composers–but the producers of this disc,
Much of this charming chamber music by California octegenarian Lou Harrison requires its performers to fill in interpretive details, or it starts to meander. Maria
Zoltán Kodály’s Missa Brevis, for chorus and organ, is an ambitious, starkly beautiful, and functionally liturgical work that serves equally well as a concert piece.