One of George Rochberg's early successes, the Symphony No. 2 (1955-1956), is a vigorous work in the rugged American symphonic tradition, shot through with modernist atonality and brusque dissonances, yet filled with muscular themes and energetically argued developments that reveal its essentially traditional character. Cast in five movements and ...
The music of Aribert Reimann (born 1936), one of the most prominent German composers of the second half of the twentieth century, is notable for its graphic and very effective depiction of bleakness. His most famous opera is based on King Lear, and the desolation and existential despair of the play are ideally suited to the composer's expressive ...
Since many of his works have been lost, Paganini's compositional output can generally be condensed to the first and second violin concertos and the 24 Caprices. That is, conveniently, precisely the program for this two-disc set by violinist Alexander Markov. Between the Caprices and the two concertos, the Caprices are certainly the most widely ...
Tired of the late-Romantic, pseudo-Wagnerian Bruckner of Karajan and Knapperstbusch? Exhausted by the post-Romantic, almost Mahlerian Bruckner of Abbado and Sinopoli? Try the proto-Modernist, nearly Schoenbergian Bruckner of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony. In a complete cycle of the symphonies from which this 2001 ...
Erwin Schulhoff: Ogelala; Suite; Symphony No. 2, making its second appearance in the revamped Arte Nova series distributed by Allegro, is one of those instances where a budget classical label manages to unleash a major orchestral work to the world at large right under the noses of those who would normally be considered entitled to such ...
The oboe was Bruno Maderna's favorite instrument and he composed three concertos for it, along with several other works that prominently feature it. This 2006 CD from Col Legno presents all three concertos in vivid performances -- two of them live -- by oboist Fabian Menzel and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Stern. ...
Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony has rarely sounded so much like Mahler's Seventh as it does in this 2000 recording with Günther Herbig directing the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken. Not that Shostakovich's Seventh actually sounds much like Mahler's Seventh -- the anxious splendor of Mahler's fin de siècle Austria is nothing like the ...
By rejecting the pursuit of originality as a pointless endeavor, and by drawing on the masters for inspiration, George Rochberg has become a controversial figure -- admired by conservatives, distrusted by the avant-garde, and possibly misunderstood by all. His music defies categorization, even under the rubric of post-modernism, so each work must ...
Although not for every violin devotee, this disc of Hans Werner Henze's First and Third violin concertos plus his Fünf Nachtstücke for violin and piano will thrill those for whom the anguished Alban Berg and mournful Karl Amadeus Hartmann's concertos are the sin qua non of twentieth century works in the genre. The First Concerto of 1946 was the ...
Like many post-modern composers, Rolf Riehm has found the music of the past to be a stimulating source of material and has reshaped it to suit his needs in several orchestral works. Whether drawing on medieval composers in He, très doulz roussignol joly (1978), the master of lieder in Schubert Teilelager (1989), or J.S. Bach in Die Erde ist eine ...
Well-written but not quite inspired music, meet well-executed but not quite inspiring performances. In the early romantic piano concerto popularity contest, Mendelssohn's two piano concertos have not attained the status of Chopin, Schumann, or Liszt. Part of the reason is the conservativism of his language and the rest is temperature of his ...
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