The Waltz Project Revisited, by Eric Moe, shows just how diverse contemporary music is. The term waltz proves to be as flexible and durable as a springboard in these miniatures. The composers represented here used the traditional waltz in 3/4 time as a starting point for these varied and distinctive works, running the gamut from sentimental to ...
A quick glance at his discography reveals that Roger Sessions' chamber works are seriously under-recorded; while this 2006 Naxos album of works for strings appears to be a welcome addition to a lamentably meager catalog, it is really a reissue of the 1993 release by the Group for Contemporary Music on Koch International Classics. However, it is ...
The second volume of Documents of the Munich Years presents four American modernist works performed between 2002 and 2003 by James Levine and the Munich Philharmonic and compiled here in simulation of a live concert, complete with applause. If this had been a true concert, the programming of these challenging pieces together might have raised a ...
One might be forgiven for thinking that it's not Roger Sessions' music that is difficult, but its performers who make it so. Of all the recordings in the limited Sessions' discography, only Dimitri Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic ever got close to making Sessions remotely comprehensible. The rest range from the vapid Seiji Ozawa ...
Appearances can be deceiving, and anyone who judges this CD by its cover photo may be a little disconcerted by the contents. The green rural landscape may suggest that the music is in a populist, Americana vein, but the dark storm cloud on the horizon hints that the four orchestral pieces by Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, George Perle, and Bernard ...
American Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2, in EMI Classics' American Classics series represents the third time around for these 1991 recordings by English pianist Peter Lawson; first as a single disc on Virgin in 1993; then combined with its companion volume in a 2-for-1 package, also on Virgin, in 2001; and as a single disc again on EMI in 2008. Lawson ...
In the liner notes of Stradivarius' From the New World, Vol. 1, painter Paul Klee is cited as having said he wished he could return to being a newborn baby once more so that he could forget about Europe. "Forgetting about Europe" seems to be the theme of From the New World, Vol. 1, which at first glance appears to be a compilation, but is a ...
The Kodály Duo for Violin & Cello has existed since 1914; in its long existence, it has been performed by countless duos and recorded dozens of times. In its recorded history, few efforts have come close to capturing the same level of Bohemian flare as cellist Janos Starker and violinist Josef Gingold. While their performance really exemplifies ...
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