Reissues in Sony's Great Performances line are often met with skepticism, for even with the incentives of direct stream digital remastering, generous bonus tracks, reproduced LP cover art, and original liner notes, Columbia's analog recordings from the 1960s are often flawed documents that collectors may desire but others may find less than ...
Legendary American chorus master Gregg Smith is getting on in years and, in a way, his calling card in the six decades his eponymous chorus has graced the world's concert stage has been his advocacy of the choral music of Charles Ives. Smith's 1966 CBS album Charles Ives: Music for Chorus and its lesser-known but no less important follow-up New ...
Made in 2007, the 125th anniversary of the birth of Igor Stravinsky, this recording of The Rite of Spring conducted by Robert Craft, the composer's amanuensis, is a fitting gesture to the composer and his long-standing relationship with Craft. The disc includes a January 2007 recording of the third and final 1967 edition of the work -- albeit the ...
If judged by the silly Star Wars typeface on the cover, the Gregg Smith Singers' 2006 album on Newport Classics, 20th Century Choral Music in Space!, might appear to be a collection of cosmic choral music used in science fiction films. However, "space" in the title actually refers to the performance space, and this CD features works composed for ...
Re-coupled from decade-old recordings originally released on the Music Masters label, this 2006 disc of Stravinsky's sacred choral works led by Robert Craft is in its way as good as it gets for the music. The playing of New York's Orchestra of St. Luke's and London's Philharmonia Orchestra is colorful and strong. The singing of the Simon Joly ...
An exponent of Stravinsky's work and musical thought for decades -- indeed, his assistant and amanuensis -- Robert Craft is uniquely qualified to present this composer's works for Koch International. While other conductors may be preferred for their more polished interpretations of one piece or another, few can claim Craft's consistency and ...
By rights, one should not traverse any reputable history of electronic music, particularly in respect to computers, without encountering mention of Lejaren Hiller; his ILLIAC Suite (1956) was the first original musical work created with the aid of one. Hiller was also instrumental in developing the first computerized systems used to create musical ...
This beautiful series of choral pieces utilizes 19th-century Protestant hymns that were included in the 1854 edition of Southern Harmony, and were originally notated in "shape notes" (square, round, triangular, and diamond-shaped note heads) that enabled non-music reading congregations to sing them. This practice (also associated with Sacred Harp ...
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