Howard Hanson composed only one opera, Merry Mount, first heard in an out-of-town tryout in Ann Arbor in 1933 and produced at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on February 10, 1934. Critical and audience response to Merry Mount, which included a sizeable radio broadcast audience that also tuned into the premiere, was overwhelmingly positive, but ...
This two-disc set is a re-release from the Gerard Schwarz/Hanson series that began on Delos in 1989 with the release of the first two symphonies. Presumably, items not included here, such as the First, Third and Fifth Symphonies, appear in Volume Two. These "Delos Doubles" (as the label calls them) are selling at a reduced price.In a sense, this ...
If you view Shostakovich as a Russian composer in the tradition of Tchaikovsky and Borodin, this recording of his Fifth Symphony -- with its big gestures, bright colors, cogent developments, and powerful rhythms -- may be very appealing. Under Gerard Schwarz, the Seattle Symphony has grown into a first-rate American orchestra capable of standing ...
These are wonderful performances, incredibly virtuosic, profoundly dramatic, and tremendously exciting. Violinist Elmar Oliveira has the guts to take on Shostakovich's harrowing Violin Concerto No. 1 and he has the strength, the sensitivity, and the sheer stubbornness to get through from its anguished opening Nocturne to its exhilarated closing ...
These recordings of William Schuman's Seventh and Tenth symphonies by Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony are neither the works' first recordings nor, perhaps, their best recordings, but they are still absolutely worthy recordings that deserve to be heard by anyone who loves American symphonic music of the twentieth century. The Seventh ...
Artek Recordings is a low-key indie with a modest website -- there is no "About us" on the webpage and the prompt that leads to an e-commerce link takes you to another webpage. Artek's packaging, too, is not terribly fancy; the disc under consideration has only an eight-page booklet made up of two panels. However, Artek is well distributed for a ...
Like the symphonies of fellow American composers Roy Harris and Aaron Copland, William Schuman's most celebrated is his Third Symphony (1941), and it is the most frequently programmed and recorded of the cycle of 10. Perhaps best known from two impressive recordings by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (1960 for Columbia and 1985 for ...
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