Powerful and compelling, this coupling of the two best British viola concertos -- William Walton's from 1929 and Edmund Rubbra's from 1952 -- should be heard by anyone who loves English orchestral music of the middle years of the twentieth century. For one thing, it contains the first modern recording of the original version of Walton's work, and ...
It's hard to imagine Russian composer Nikolai Roslavets in the mainstream of anything -- he of the sintetakkord, one of several formal composition techniques that emerged in Russia in the wake of Scriabin that was stamped out by the Soviet government circa 1930. An uncompromising voice in experimental music from about 1915 to 1927, Roslavets was ...
The MDG Gold label asserts that they are an audiophile label that focuses on the natural acoustics of a performance without manipulating the actual sound of the performance by adding reverb, changing dynamics, or altering the tone. Upon listening to this recording of the Mendelssohn piano concertos with pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Camerata ...
Among the most forgotten of forgotten Romantic-era violin concertos are the two fin de siècle Russians works on this disc. Like its composer, the A minor Violin Concerto by Anton Arensky is nearly unknown today. A lovely four-movements-in-one work lasting just 20 minutes, Arensky's Concerto has sweet melodies, tender harmonies, effervescent ...
While it could never hope to supplant the definitive stereo Decca recording of Britten's early piano concerto with the dedicatee at the keyboard and the composer on the podium, this digital Hyperion recording does provide a valuable supplement to the earlier recording. There, of course, the magisterial Sviatoslav Richter was the soloist and the ...
This disc is a major discovery. How many listeners, even the most dedicated fans of early Soviet composers, can claim to have heard anything by Nikolay Roslavets? A victim of Stalin's life and death culture wars, Roslavets was all but expunged from the historical record after his death in 1944. Only a tiny fraction of his music has been recorded ...
There are those who say that Mendelssohn was a minor early German Romantic, that aside from a handful of pieces -- the octet, the violin concerto, the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a few others -- his music is entirely inconsequential to the history of German music. And then there are those who say he's a major early German Romantic, ...
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