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Kimmo Hakola’s Clarinet Concerto begins in a brassy panoply of hard-driving rhythms that would be perfectly at home in the film score for The Matrix.
Kimmo Hakola’s Clarinet Concerto begins in a brassy freight train rhythms that remind of the music from the Matrix films. The clarinet leaps out of
This is generic modern music of the atonal melodic variety, more or less. The writing for both instruments is brilliant but completely insensitive to their
Ondine’s exciting new John Corigliano collection presents what presumably is the world-premiere orchestral recording of Phantasmagoria (Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax offered a chamber version
This is as fine a Sibelius cycle as any available, and the performances of Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7, as well as
Magnus Lindberg’s Clarinet Concerto is just fabulous, perhaps the finest work he has written, and certainly one of the tiny handful of truly great pieces
Rautavaara is one of Finland’s many fine composers; perhaps the finest. His 1972 Cantus Arcticus, for Birds and Orchestra, has achieved international success and several
Prokofiev arranged excerpts from his ballet Cinderella for solo piano as three separate suites: the Three Pieces Op. 95, Ten Pieces Op. 97, and Six
The continued popularity of the string quartet version of The Seven Last Words mystifies me. I mean, I understand why string quartets may like it,
Christoph Eschenbach really knows his Bruckner, and he turns in a very impressive performance of the Fourth Symphony ably supported by fine if not quite
