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The piano music Déodat de Sévérac (1872-1921) composed during his short career abounds with charm, humor, and idiomatic assurance, along with a harmonic palette that
The promotional blurb for this recording bills it as a “wide-ranging program”, and that’s certainly true; the only unifying theme might be that all the
This is the third recording of these charming Wolf-Ferrari works to come out in the past few years. It’s easy to understand why. The music
Messiaen’s tone poems Le tombeau resplendissant and Hymne are early works (1931-32), save for the fact that the score of the latter was lost and
Franz Xaver Dussek (1731-99) was one of numerous talented composers writing in the Viennese classical style. The four symphonies featured here were supposedly composed in
Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry was premiered in Nashville in 2007 and the next year traveled to Montclair State University in New Jersey. It has since
This disc contains a wealth of relatively unfamiliar music, although all of it has been recorded before. Holst’s “The Cotswolds” Symphony deserves credit for its
After her excellent Bartók disc for Naxos, I had high expectations for Marin Alsop’s new Prokofiev Fifth, but the result is disappointing. This is a
The Swiss Amar Quartet is named for Hindemith’s own group, formed for the premiere of the Third Quartet in C major (1920), included on this
Just when you thought you didn’t need yet another Mahler
