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In addition to the dark political past of their country (the civil war, the Franco years), contemporary Spanish composers have to deal with the strong
Two things prevent Malipiero’s music from getting the attention that it deserves: He was a major fascist collaborator during the Second World War, and his
As anyone following Marco Polo’s enterprising discs of Aaron Avshalomoff’s orchestral music knows, his style combines the colorful nationalism of the Russian school of Rimsky-Korsakov
There’s a certain sameness to Georges Auric’s music for these films, despite his use of interesting instruments such as saxophones, celeste, and Ondes Martinot. From
Both stylistically and geographically, Frank Corcoran’s music is literally a long way from Tipperary, where he was born in 1944. The Hamburg-based composer studied with
This is highly spectacular music written in an accessible atonal idiom reminiscent of Dutilleux, Lutoslawski, Messiaen, and other mainstream contemporary composers. A student of Alun
This collection groups together three previously issued film scores by three great composers of Hollywood’s “Golden Age”, all written for horror movies. When I was
This silly movie brought all of your favorite 1930s and ’40s movie monsters–Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolfman–together for the first time. The reasons, not surprisingly,
Aaron Avshalomoff is one of the very rare examples of Western-composer-gone-East. Born in Siberia, he spent nearly 30 years of his life in China, where,
Franz Waxman was the first to admit his stylistic debt to the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and to Richard Strauss as well, and that
