Famously unapologetic for bucking the avant-garde, Ned Rorem was largely ostracized by the new music intelligentsia of the 1950s, and his three symphonies from that decade were unfairly neglected. They remained so, even when neo-Romanticism became fashionable again toward the end of the twentieth century. This 2003 release from Naxos at last gives ...
Of the many available renditions of Joaquín Rodrigo's evergreen Concierto de Aranjuez, few stand out like guitarist Sharon Isbin's impressive performance with José Serebrier and the New York Philharmonic. Isbin's exquisite playing carries the piece, and her refined technique, clear execution, subtle timbral control, and tasteful expression sustain ...
The gift that conductor and composer José Serebrier inherited from his former mentor, Leopold Stokowski, is immediately apparent upon even a brief listen to this album. Both men have an alluring gift: the ability to make an orchestra sound gorgeous. Serebrier is perhaps one of the few remaining authoritative spokesmen for Stokowski, and his ...
A wonderfully cohesive program brilliantly executed, this disc by violinist Zina Schiff with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under José Serebrier is a superb single-disc collection of Ernest Bloch's major works for violin and orchestra. Each piece is based on Jewish themes, explicitly in Baal Shem (Three Pictures of Chassdic Life) and Suite ...
The listener's eye may fall on a line in the booklet notes: "Thanks to the more open times, I now felt free to write as I felt." Conductor and composer José Serebrier, describing his 1999 orchestral work Winterreise, refers not to totalitarian censorship but of the academic-mandated modernism that stifled crowd-pleasing new music in America for so ...
Leopold Stokowski was an ardent admirer of the music of Richard Wagner, and he regularly performed excerpts from the composer's music dramas in his own orchestral arrangements, following a practice initiated by several of Wagner's followers. These "symphonic syntheses," as Stokowski called them, go further than the cut-and-dried concert ...
Despite being composed more than a half-century ago, Ned Rorem's Second Piano Concerto is only now receiving its world-premiere recording -- a crime of omission if there ever was one. Hopefully this dazzling recording will inspire soloists and orchestras alike to begin including this very accessible, captivating composition on programs and CDs ...
Once upon a time in America -- in an era when the Vienna serialists, Bartók, and the products of homegrown artists such as Ives and Antheil remained unknown, the distended, crooked melodic line in Shostakovich's "Polka" from the ballet The Golden Age stood as the ne plus ultra of irreverent modernism. While this piece, and the suite that brought ...
There's a tendency to classify composers of the twentieth century as progressives and conservatives. Some certainly qualify for these designations, but it's actually more helpful to regard twentieth century music as a field of competing ideas, of "isms," that swept successively across the musical landscape and influenced most composers at one time ...
There have been other recordings of Leopold Stokowski's transcriptions of music of Mussorgsky, later recordings by Matthias Bamert, and, naturally, many recordings by Stokowski himself. But while the Stokowski true believer would not want to part with any of the Maestro's recordings, the neophyte might want to try something a little fresher. And ...
Ge Gan-Ru is widely identified as the first Chinese composer to work in an avant-garde style, a Western conceit once completely prohibited in China, especially during China's Cultural Revolution, the era in which Ge grew up and served three years in an agricultural labor camp. Ge has lived in the United States since 1983; BIS' Super Audio CD ...
José Serebrier has sporadically composed when his responsibilities as a conductor have permitted it. This album is a brief survey, covering Serebrier's bouts of creativity from the early Elegy for strings (1952) to the Symphony No. 3 (2003). Serebrier's strengths are found in his short pieces, where his spontaneity and sense of instrumental color ...
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