
This convenient program brings together Anton Arensky’s three charming suites for orchestra, all of them vintage examples of Romantic Russian music. The spirit of the
Along with Ernest Bloch’s Sacred Service, Milhaud’s Service Sacré is one of the relatively rare major works of Jewish liturgy that are as amenable to
Alexandra Hawley and Jeffrey McFadden offer a wonderfully eclectic program for flute and guitar. If you haven’t heard this combination of instruments before, on the
Robert Starer’s K’li zemer concerto will be a surprise to anyone who associates the term with weddings and bar mitzvahs. Actually the Yiddish klezmer (instrumental
If you’re familiar with Mompou’s exquisite miniatures for piano, you’ll know what to expect from that composer’s younger, lesser-known colleague Manuel Blancafort (1897-1987). Blancafort amassed
Naxos’ ongoing Bax symphony cycle goes from strength to strength with the release of this sumptuous performance of the darkly militant Fifth Symphony. The composer
Ah, such pleasing, dreamy music! You can almost see fluffy, feathery clouds drifting across a bright blue sky looking down on a lily-covered pasture. Picturesque?
This new release makes a distinguished follow-up to Laura Mikkola’s Naxos recording of Rautavaara’s First Piano Concerto. When works are new, as these are, it’s
Convention holds that Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony finale exists as a pile of sketches too fragmentary to be completed by another hand. None of the prior
Marin Alsop follows up her excellent Samuel Barber series for Naxos with works by her one-time mentor, Leonard Bernstein. For the most part, she and