Titled Horizons and subtitled "A Personal Collection of Piano Encores," Leif Ove Andsnes' 2006 release can only make longtime fans of his playing ask three little questions: Andsnes? Encores? Really? A self-confessed "very serious young pianist" who played "only the most important repertoire," Andsnes had heretofore always seemed to be the ...
The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, conducted by founder Daniel Spalding, give George Antheil's once notorious Ballet mécanique an exciting and colorful performance for Naxos here. While this work has lost much of its ability to shock, it is nevertheless an invigorating composition, sounding fresh and impertinent even today. With ...
In its American Classics series Naxos has a cycle of Antheil Symphonies and other works ongoing, with the young conductor Theodor Kuchar leading the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. The Fourth and Sixth Symphonies appear on the first issue in that cycle, along with a short work called McKonkey's Ferry, and in all those works the voice of ...
Aside from his legendary Ballet mécanique, which still gets played as a kind of souvenir of the madcap 1920s, George Antheil's concert music has mostly fallen into obscurity. In spite of his reputation as an enfant terrible who hobnobbed with the leading lights of the avant-garde, his works attract less attention than the details of his life. ...
Antheil Plays Antheil, issued by Other Minds in San Francisco, is subtitled "The Rare SPA Recordings & Private Audio Documents 1942-1958." SPA -- short for Society of Participating Artists -- was operated from 1949 to 1959 by Norman Fox and conductor F. Charles Adler, marketing small quantities of classical recordings aimed at specialist tastes; ...
MDG Scene's Player Piano Vol. 4: Piano Music without Limits, curated by Jürgen Hocker, is devoted to early player piano works that historically serve as "impressive examples of early twentieth century machine aesthetics and may also be regarded as the forerunners of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano." It examines a number of European ...
The San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet specializes in contemporary and twentieth century music from the Americas from Amy Beach to Julia Wolfe and many others in between. Its Other Minds release George Antheil: The Complete Works for String Quartet appears to be Del Sol's first recording for a concern other than its own label. Antheil's ...
New World's Works for Violin by Antheil, Beyer, Cowell, Crawford, Dodge, Mahler, Polansky, Wolpe is the lengthy but even-handed title of a collection of American violin works performed by Japanese-Australian violinist Miwako Abe and pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. Although these recordings were made in Australia, this is not a second-hand re ...
Here Hugh Wolff leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in the third volume of a series surveying the orchestral music of George Antheil. It's hard to imagine how Wolff and his crew are going to be able to top this one, as it brings together some of the cream of this repertoire in flawless, sharply etched performances that are big-boned and ...
EDA's The Life of the Machines (called "Live of the Machines" on the CD's label printing) is an interesting and ambitious program of "mechanistic" piano music composed between 1916 and 1948. Pianist Vladimir Stoupel, based in France, is a frequent participant in the New York Philharmonic's chamber music concerts, Bargemusic performances, the ...
This budget Arte Nova Classics disc, Piano Concertos of the 1920s featuring German pianist Michael Rische, was available on an import basis for about five minutes back in 2002. It has reappeared with a snappy new period-appropriate cover courtesy of an agreement struck between BMG Ariola, the owners of Arte Nova, and indie distributors Allegro ...
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