While there are plenty of other dandy recordings of Copland's populist magnum opus Appalachian Spring, this 1959 recording may be the one to get if you're getting only one. For one thing, it has Copland conducting, and while he was not the world's greatest conductor, he was the world's greatest authority on his own music and it shows in his ...
The inner front cover of the program book of this Reference Recording CD shows one of the Dallas Wind Symphony's percussionists in the act of playing a bass drum that is probably bigger than he is. It is an apt metaphor for the sound of the disc, which is wide in dynamics and frequency response and big in impact.While orchestral composers of the ...
Arrrgh, Mateys! Captain Erich Kunzel has donned his tri-cornered hat and led that landlubbing Cincinnati Pops through some of the key atmospheric music known from seafaring film fare in Telarc's Masters and Commanders: Music from Seafaring Film Classics. As is expected from Telarc and Cincinnati, the sound is big -- wide-screen Technicolor big. In ...
Arrrgh, Mateys! Captain Erich Kunzel has donned his tri-cornered hat and led that landlubbing Cincinnati Pops through some of the key atmospheric music known from seafaring film fare in Telarc's Masters and Commanders: Music from Seafaring Film Classics. As expected from Telarc and Cincinnati, the sound is big -- wide-screen Technicolor big, ...
Morton Gould's Brass & Percussion is an artifact from the halcyon days of high fidelity, a lost era when "Radio Row" in New York City was bursting at the seams with shops selling every kind of cutting-edge audio gear to hi-fi enthusiasts eager to blow away their wives, neighbors, and everyone else with big audio systems. Forthwith, Brass & ...
There are flaws in the execution of this program, but no matter -- it's a rare recording that offers not just one but two original ideas. The first is that there's an energy that's characteristic of American music, whether it comes from the crowd-pleasing crossover sphere of Gershwin and Morton Gould or from the experimentalist quarters of Cage ...
There's a tendency to classify composers of the twentieth century as progressives and conservatives. Some certainly qualify for these designations, but it's actually more helpful to regard twentieth century music as a field of competing ideas, of "isms," that swept successively across the musical landscape and influenced most composers at one time ...
If judged by the silly Star Wars typeface on the cover, the Gregg Smith Singers' 2006 album on Newport Classics, 20th Century Choral Music in Space!, might appear to be a collection of cosmic choral music used in science fiction films. However, "space" in the title actually refers to the performance space, and this CD features works composed for ...
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