A few aging listeners will recall a time when the only way to hear most of the music of Anton Webern was through the recordings of Robert Craft. Few of those listeners will recall those performances with pleasure. Webern's music was new then, so most of it had never been recorded before, so no one really knew how it went. That Craft had his ...
Originally released by Koch, these recordings of key works in Arnold Schoenberg's oeuvre are now part of Naxos' Robert Craft Collection, a series of reissues that reaffirms the conductor's unflagging devotion to modern music, even if the performances and recording quality periodically flag. The pieces predate Schoenberg's discovery of the twelve ...
Above all, American composer George Perle is not known for any of his works, but instead for the book Serial Composition and Atonality, a standard textbook used in college-level music courses. This has led to the common misconception that Perle is a serial composer, a designation that is only partly true. Perle works within a highly modified ...
Robert Craft is a true believer in the music of Schoenberg. He has been conducting it for more than 50 years and he has been recording it for nearly that long. Aging listeners may recall Craft's pioneering Columbia recordings. Younger listeners may recall his unfinished series of recording for Koch. This disc is the second in Craft's most recent ...
Seattle-born composer Daniel Asia has been a consistent and prolific contributor to most of the traditional art music genres. While listeners are more likely to be familiar with his many symphonic works (he was composer-in-residence for the Phoenix Symphony for three years), his chamber music output is equally refined and deserving of attention. ...
The Dante Trilogy consists of three modernist ballets by Charles Wuorinen: The Mission of Virgil (1993), The Great Procession (1995), and The River of Light (1996), which correspond to the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso of La Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri. Without attempting to depict the poem's otherworldly narrative through scene ...
Before becoming one of the most successful orchestral composers of the early twenty first century, Jennifer Higdon studied as a flutist and found an audience through her compositions for that instrument. It's not surprising, then, to find that it is central to this 2008 album from Koch of Higdon's chamber music, and that her work from over two ...
The Azure Ensemble, led by flutist Susan Glaser and violist Karen Ritscher, is a chamber ensemble that has operated out of New York City since 1999 and its basic instrumentation consists of flute, viola, harp, piano, and cello. While it has a tiny repertoire of works drawn from established literature, the group exists primarily to perform new ...
"That Carl Ruggles," musicologist Mike Seeger once said with a knowing smile "was a piece of work." Ruggles was enormously versatile artistically and could claim creative mastery as a composer, painter, orchestra builder, symphonic bandleader, music teacher, and raconteur. Yet Ruggles was also curmudgeonly, irascible, vulgar, and temperamental, ...
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