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There are many excellent recordings of these works, some of them truly dazzling. Valentina Igoshina doesn’t out-blaze Denis Matsuev and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in
Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça (1908-93) is a difficult composer to pigeon-hole. His symphony in particular starts off a bit like Honegger’s First (sound clip below),
Guido Cantelli’s relatively small yet significant legacy of commercial recordings for EMI have been kept alive on CD, chiefly through the label’s Great Recordings of
String Theory is a seven-minute rhythmic fantasia for strings and percussion that’s over before you know it. Chesky is a very serious composer, and like
Nareh Arghamanyan has developed by leaps and bounds since her 2008 Concours Musical International de Montréal victory, followed by a debut solo disc containing proficient
This live Met broadcast from April 11, 1964 is a mixed bag. Nello Santi’s leadership is unexciting in both operas, and the chorus and orchestra
The Romantic Piano Concerto Volume 54? My God! And the series shows no lack of interest or quality. These works are delightful. Frederic Cowen’s single-movement
You might subtitle this disc “The Dark Dvorák” since it consists of three of his most turbulent (but also greatest) works. First there’s Othello: guy
Rick Benjamin’s reconstruction of Scott Joplin’s lone surviving opera Treemonisha from the existing vocal/piano score is nothing less than a revelation of historical research and
The two Vaughan Williams works for viola and orchestra, the Suite and Flos Campi, are two of the most characterful and imaginative of all 20th
