It must be tough to be a "marginal" composer, and it is even tougher to be an advocate for one. Certainly in his time George Chadwick was not viewed as "marginal" by his peers -- despite his lack of a high school diploma, he was once director of the New England Conservatory of Music, and was once lauded widely as the great American composer of his ...
Sumptuous and tender-hearted, voluptuous and exquisitely beautiful, Theodore Kuchar and the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra's 1994 recording of the three suites from Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella could only be improved if there were more of it. And the only way there could be more of it would be if Kuchar and the U.S.S.O. had recorded the whole ...
Aside from having been published consecutively, there isn't much to link Prokofiev's Waltz Suite, Op. 110, with his Symphony No. 6, Op. 111. The waltzes are delightful, charming, elegiac, a little bit creepy, but always ingratiating. The Symphony No. 6 is powerful, lyrical, tragic, very scary, and always monumental. The only thing they really have ...
Back before there were recordings, performance history was only as old as the oldest memory, and thus it was not only possible but inevitable that every generation would reinterpret every piece. But now in this the golden age of recorded music, when pretty much everything that's ever been recorded is available somewhere in the world, performance ...
Some conductors regard Carl Nielsen's six powerful symphonies as problems, to be solved largely through interpretive means; the rough melodic edges, unusual harmonic spacings, and quirky instrumental combinations that are so characteristic of these unique works are too often played down, smoothed over, and blended away, as if they were surface ...
The best that can be said of this recording by Theodore Kuchar and the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine of Tchaikovsky's least-known symphonic poems plus dances from his least-known operas is that is, far and away, the best recording of any of these works ever made. As they have shown in their recordings of the symphonies of Prokofiev ...
What we have here are three discs containing two of Shostakovich's jazz suites, two of his overtures, two of his film scores, three of his ballet suites, plus one piece of eternal ephemeral music. While this might not appeal to the listener looking for Shostakovich's symphonies nor to listeners looking for no more than the smallest sample of his ...
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