Lovely, melodic, and ephemeral, these three concertos by German-Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari will charm listeners looking for twentieth century music that recalls with warm nostalgia the final years of the nineteenth century. Each concerto is in four movements and scored for different woodwind soloists plus a small orchestra. Both the ...
In the west, Russian composer Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky is best known as a conductor and recording artist for EMI, whose exclusive focus has been in the Romantic repertoire. This concentration has apparently influenced his compositions, since the music sounds similar in many ways to nineteenth century fare, only modified through minimalist ...
If Beethoven's symphonies benefit from being performed by small orchestras, then it should come as no surprise that the exceptional Orchestra di Padove e del Veneto offers something new to these masterpieces. Through its concentrated tone, agility, and clarity, this chamber orchestra treats Beethoven as a Classical composer, decidedly closer to ...
Quite active into his senior citizen years, Russo-Icelandic pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy has concentrated on virtuoso Romantic works for much of his long career, but has devoted considerable energy to Mozart as well, releasing a widely praised series of Mozart concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. As he did on those ...
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