Even though he was widely celebrated as one of the most important American musicians of the twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein has already become the subject of a critical reassessment and cautious revival in the early twenty first. This 2005 Naxos CD presents three of Bernstein's appealing but underplayed and under-appreciated concert works, ...
The name of Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa may be more closely associated with film music -- he won Academy Awards for his scores for Ben Hur and Hitchcock's Spellbound, to name but two -- but his concert music is fortunately being discovered anew and finding itself on more concert stages and CDs. The present album focuses on his works for violin ...
Composer John Corigliano returns again to his very familiar film score The Red Violin for another work based on that score. This time, Corigliano has composed a set of caprices (Theme and Variations) that are immediately reminiscent of Paganini, not just because they are referred to as caprices, but also because of the specific pyrotechnic ...
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