CD Reviews – Page 23 – Walter Simmons

BLOCH: String Quartets: No. 2. No. 3; No. 4. Prelude. Night Two Pieces. Paysages. In the Mountains.

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BLOCH: String Quartet No. 2. Prelude. Night Two Pieces. Pro Arte Quartet. LAUREL LR-826CD (compact disc [ADD]; 53:41), produced by Herschel Burke Gilbert. BLOCH: String Quartets: No. 3; No. 4. Paysages. In the Mountains. Pro Arte Quartet. LAUREL LR-841CD (compact disc [DDD]; 69:37), …

BRAGA SANTOS: Concerto in D for Strings (1951); Sinfonietta for Strings (1963); Variations Concertantes (1967); Double Concerto (1968).

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BRAGA SANTOS: Concerto in D for Strings (1951); Sinfonietta for Strings(1963); Variations Concertantes (1967); Double Concerto (1968) · Álvaro Cassuto, cond; Northern Sinfonia; Sue Blair (hp); Bradley Creswick (vn); Alexander Somov (vc)· MARCO POLO 8.225186 (67:51) Joly Braga Santos (1924-1988) increasingly seems to be …

BLOCH: Macbeth

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BLOCH: Macbeth · Alexander Rumpf (cond); Hannu Niemelä (Macbeth); Sonja Borowski-Tudor (Lady Macbeth); Karl-Heinz Lehner (Macduff); Thomas de Vries (Banquo); Norbert Schmittberg (Duncan); Dortmund Theater Ch, PO · CAPRICCIO 10 889/90 (2 CDs: 2:13; Live Perf: 12/5/98) Yes, it is amazing, isn’t …

BARBER: Violin Concerto. Music for a Scene from Shelley. Souvenirs. Serenade.

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BARBER: Violin Concerto. Music for a Scene from Shelley. Souvenirs. Serenade · Marin Alsop, cond; Royal Scottish National SO; James Buswell (vn)· NAXOS 8.559044 (66:30) This is Volume 3 of Naxos’s highly praised Barber cycle. Perhaps this installment has less to offer the …

W. SCHUMAN: The Mighty Casey (excerpts). BARBER: A Hand of Bridge. BLITZSTEIN: The Harpies.

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W. SCHUMAN: The Mighty Casey (excerpts). BARBER: A Hand of Bridge. BLITZSTEIN: The Harpies. Rosalind Rees, Catherine Aks, sopranos; Fay Kittelson, contralto; Thomas Bogdan, William Carney, tenor; Richard Muenz, baritone; other soloists; Gregg Smith conducting the Gregg Smith Singers, the Long Island Symphonic Choral …

NOVAK: Eternal Longing; In the Tatras; Moravian-Slovak Suite.

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NOVAK: Eternal Longing; In the Tatras; Moravian-Slovak Suite. Karel Sejna conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra. SUPRAPHON CRYSTAL — 11 0682-2 011 [ADD]; 65:00. Produced by Eduard Herzog and Jaroslav Krcek. This CD reissue is an …

MACMILLAN: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Tryst.

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MACMILLAN: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Tryst. Jerzy Maksymiuk conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. KOCH-SCHWANN 3-1050-2 [DDD]; 54:12. Produced by Martin Dalby. James MacMillan is a young (b. 1959) Scottish composer who has attracted a good deal of attention in Great. …

MENOTTI: Apocalypse. DELLO JOIO: Meditations on Ecclesiastes. LO PRESTI: The Masks

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MENOTTI: Apocalypse. DELLO JOIO: Meditations on Ecclesiastes. LO PRESTI: The Masks. James DePreist conducting the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. KOCH INTERNATIONAL 3-7156-2H1 [DDD]; 58:07. Produced by Michael Fine. The 1950s was an especially fruitful decade for American orchestral music. Many leading traditionalist composers were producing …

HANSON: Symphony No. 5, “Sinfonia Sacra”; Symphony No. 7, “A Sea Symphony”; Mosaics; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.

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HANSON: Symphony No. 5, “Sinfonia Sacra”; Symphony No. 7, “A Sea Symphony”; Mosaics; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Symphony Chorale; Carol Rosenberger, piano. DELOS — DE 3130 [DDD]; 67:51. Produced by Amelia S. …

PANUFNIK: Symphony No. 9, “Sinfonia della Speranza”; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.

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PANUFNIK: Symphony No. 9, “Sinfonia della Speranza”; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Ewa Poblocka, piano; Sir Andrzej Panufnik conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. CONIFER CDCF-206 [DDD]; 64:59. Produced by John Kehoe. (Distributed by Allegro Imports) Andrzej Panufnik died in October, 1991, at …