The Potomac String Quartet presents three deeply felt and strongly characterized performances on this 2004 release from Albany, the fourth and final volume in the ensemble's series of David Diamond's 10 string quartets. Admirers of Diamond's thoughtful, elegantly constructed music will find this CD and the entire series a valuable contribution to ...
Back in the early '90s when Delos was releasing Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony's award-winning, best-selling series of the great American symphonists, the discs dedicated to the music of David Diamond were among the most award-winning and the best-selling. At the time, Fanfare wrote that the Diamond discs were "the most important releases ...
You know you're in trouble with an American work from 1961 when the composer begins his notes for the premiere with the sentence "The basic row is proclaimed in the very opening bars of the introduction." With serialism as dead as Communism -- think of Elliott Carter as American music's equivalent of Fidel Castro -- the whole idea of a basic row ...
Dimitri Mitropoulos loved it. Koussevitzky premiered it. The critics compared it to contemporary works by Shostakovich. In its time, the Symphony No. 2 of David Diamond was one of the acknowledged masterpieces of American classical music. Then war ended and America was overrun by European serialists and worse yet, by an infestation of its own ...
A reissue of recordings made in the early '90s for Delos, this Naxos album adds to David Diamond's representation in the acclaimed American Classics series, and reaffirms his status after years of unjust and incomprehensible neglect. Diamond's concert suite from the ballet TOM, based on Uncle Tom's Cabin, and This Sacred Ground, a setting of ...
An homage to the venerable Russian cellist, conductor, and humanitarian Mstislav Rostropovich could easily occupy several dozen CDs, countless DVDs, or a small library of books. His career was one of the most distinguished in the history of classical music, having premiered more than 150 new works for the cello -- more than any other cellist in ...
Ives, Copland, and Bernstein. And some, of course, would add Barber. These are, opinion has it, the great American composers. But what about David Diamond? He's written symphonies of individual character and rich profundity, concerti of brilliance and virtuosic appeal, theater music of vivid character and immense charm, and incidental scores of ...
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