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My colleague Dan Davis raved about Volume 1 in this series, and I find no reason to question his judgment. This disc contains the remaining
Szeligowski (1896-1963) spent most of his career in Poznan, so it’s fitting that he be promoted by what in effect is his hometown team. On
Penderecki’s gripping St. Luke Passion (1966) takes the Passions of Bach as its models, refashioning them in an unrelentingly modernist 20th-century language. The boldly original
Each of these purely instrumental symphonies takes its inspiration from the five sections of the Roman Catholic Mass Ordinary (that is, the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo,
Fifteen years before Chopin wrote his first “nocturne”, Irish pianist/composer John Field composed his Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat major, followed by at least 15
Naxos launches its Samuel Barber orchestral music series with this very impressive recording, noteworthy both for its inclusion of the rarely heard Second Symphony, as
Here at last we have a recording of Barber’s marvelous Piano Concerto to rival (if not surpass) the classic Szell/Browning recording for CBS (Sony), a
If you’ve heard Hyperion’s stunning Kapustin recitals with Steven Osborne and Marc-André Hamelin, or perhaps have read David Hurwitz’s excellent descriptions of this ceaselessly inventive
Just when you’re about to break down and order this 1993 Collins Classics release from a second-hand CD outlet for around $70, the Naxos reissue
This disc is a riot. Isotaro Sugata (1907-52) is a composer of such deliberate, shameless derivativeness that these very serious and often lovely works veer
