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The performances here are all very good, but it’s the total program that makes this disc so interesting. Florez och Blanzeflor and Ithaka, both to
You might remember Polish composer Henryk Górecki’s best-known work for voice and orchestra, 1976’s Third Symphony (“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”). After all, David Zinman’s recording
The first thing you notice in listening to this recording is the beautiful individual and ensemble sound of the Harlem Quartet. Walter Piston’s music recalls
When Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s music first appeared on disc she had a couple of things going for her: first, she was a woman, which was
Between 1958 and 2002 Luciano Berio completed his 14 solo Sequenzas, a series of pieces that push not only each instrument’s technical, textural, and expressive
Those that claim Muzio Clementi’s Gradus ad Parnassum to be little more than a collection of 100 boring, pedagogical exercises simply do not know the
Herbert Howells’ choral masterpiece, the Requiem, has been well served on CD and this performance from one of Cambridge’s legendary choirs adds itself to the
Let’s start with the good news. This performance of the Third Symphony is as fine as any yet recorded. Conductor Pietari Inkinen understands that the
Notte di maggio is a gorgeous, impressionistic tone poem for voice and orchestra dating from 1913, making it one of Alfredo Casella’s early works. Full
This performance, recorded live in Bergamo in October, 2006, is an old-fashioned Lucia, the sort that is clearly pre-Callas, although most cuts are opened: the
