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The big discovery here is Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Concertino of 1948. It sounds for all the world like a Russian take on Barber’s concerto: highly lyrical,
Michael Daugherty manages to have his musical cake and eat it too. His music’s eclectic “pop” elements rub shoulders with thoroughly modern compositional techniques. Time
José Serebrier recorded his suite from Carmen, called “Carmen Symphony”, for BIS. This wind band version works perfectly well, and the arrangement is as effective
One of the least known of J.S. Bach’s musically talented children, J.C.F. Bach (1732-95) composed 20 symphonies that we know of, eight of which survive.
Schumann worked on his Scenes from Faust for some nine years, from 1847 until just before his attempted suicide. It contains some of his finest
Ashley Wass and James Judd turn in a finely wrought and atmospheric performance of Bax’s Winter Legends–a piano concerto in all but name. A Bax
The excellence of Bjarte Engeset’s Grieg recordings speaks for itself. This disc contains all of Grieg’s music for string orchestra, plus the Lyric Suite. As
The Twelfth is not Shostakovich’s best symphony, but it’s not as bad as its detractors would have us believe. The first two movements in particular
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85) stubbornly maintained his allegiance to tonality throughout the long dark night of the 20th century atonal avant-garde. It was a brave stance,
Not that you’d be tempted to buy this, but just in case, this isn’t the worst possible coupling. EMI once released a Tennstedt recording of
