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2008 brings us the long-anticipated sequel to 1999’s second volume in Naxos’ John Ireland piano music cycle. Since he began this project in 1995, pianist
The third entry in Naxos’ complete survey of Manuel Blancafort’s piano music only reinforces my enthusiasm for this composer’s inventive keyboard writing, gorgeous harmonic sense,
At last, an expertly sung rendition of Owls (An Epitaph) that also captures the detail and ambience necessary to impart its delightfully weird, impressionistic atmosphere.
Please don’t miss hearing this lovely and reasonably priced CD! For some reason you will almost never encounter this music in concert anymore (at least
Against such competition as tenor Fritz Wunderlich (DG) and baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (EMI, DG) in the Die schöne Müllerin CD-stakes, German tenor Christian Elsner certainly
It’s strange that a country so unapologetic about its nationalist enthusiasms, particularly during the Victorian period when Britannia truly “ruled the waves” and was the
Alexander Glazunov (1866-1936) lived long enough to see modernism take root throughout Europe, including Russia where his greatest student, Dmitri Shostakovich, was already making a
This first volume in a projected series of Freitas Branco orchestral works nicely outlines his three principal styles. First, in the symphony, there is the
Why so much of Ernest Bloch’s music hovers on the fringes of the repertoire remains a mystery. So much of it is excellent: the string
For this Volume 1 of the songs of Charles Ives (the series will include all of the songs he completed), Naxos employed the services of
