The musical style of Philip Glass (b. 1937) became widely recognizable by the 1990s, if not earlier. Many lesser composers imitated him (and still imitate him) and he has obviously become one of the more important figures in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century music. He has more than a few detractors, though, who hear his music ...
Even for those listeners who love the English composers of the first half of the twentieth century, Adrian Bliss is a bit recherché. More modernist and more cosmopolitan than even William Walton, Bliss was nevertheless a lesser composer than Walton. Although no one doubted his technique, no one was quite sure about his sincerity. The modernist ...
The popular suites from Georges Bizet's opera, Carmen, and his incidental music for Alphonse Daudet's play, L'Arlésienne, are staples of the concert hall. Few can deny the infectiousness of Bizet's melodies, and most accept that these suites are fairly representative of the original stage works. Outside the theater, however, Bizet's music loses ...
Whether one loves the orchestral music of Hamilton Harty for its romance, for its color, for its lyricism, or simply for its unbridled Irish enthusiasm or whether one loathes Harty's music for its spectacle, for its display, for its sentimentality, or simply for its unbridled Irish enthusiasm, one is able to affirm that this collection of Harty's ...
Like many composers of his generation, Ernest John Moeran was an avid collector of folk songs, and he often incorporated them into his large orchestral works. Because these melodies evoked landscapes for his musical imagination and gave his work an Anglo-Irish identification, Moeran is often classified as a regional composer. Yet such a narrow ...
For those of you who love the music of E.J. Moeran, who love his bucolic harmonies and his rustic rhythms and his pastoral and passionate melodies, this is the disc for you. Although Moeran's lone symphony has been relatively well represented in recordings, his other orchestral works have been less often issued. This 1988 disc by Vernon Handley ...
Schubert's symphonies fall into two groups: the early works, in which he closely emulated Classical models; and a second phase, which is marked by the increased lyricism and expansiveness of his last two masterpieces. This disc presents examples of both periods, and the interpretations of two conductors and their orchestras effectively illustrate ...
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