Kurka, Robert – Walter Simmons

Picks of the Year: 2004

wswebmaster on November 24, 2018

Another year has gone by, the mainstream classical music world continues to degenerate into terminal fluff, the number of retail stores selling classical recordings continues to dwindle, yet exciting repertoire continues to appear in superb recorded performances in sufficient quantity …

KURKA: Symphony No. 2. Serenade. Music for Orchestra. Julius Caesar

wswebmaster on November 24, 2018

KURKA Symphony No. 2. Serenade. Music for Orchestra. Julius Caesar • Carlos Kalmar, cond; Grant Park O • CEDILLE CDR-90000 077 (64:00) Well, here we go again: Just a few issues back (Fanfare 27:6) I was reviewing an Albany Symphony miscellany in which …

KURKA: Symphony No. 2. V. THOMSON: Filling Station. HELPS: Piano Concerto No. 2. LOPATNIKOFF: Festival Overture

wswebmaster on November 24, 2018

KURKA: Symphony No. 2. V. THOMSON: Filling Station. HELPS: Piano Concerto No. 2. LOPATNIKOFF: Festival Overture • David Alan Miller, cond; Albany SO; Alan Feinberg (pn)• ALBANY TROY591 (64:33) This is one of those 20th-century miscellanies that harkens back to the heyday of …

MENNIN: Symphony No. 5; Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. SCHUMAN: New England Triptych. IVES: Symphony No. 3; Three Places in New England. PISTON: Sympnony No. 1. KURKA: The Good Soldier Schweik — Suite.

wswebmaster on November 21, 2018

MENNIN: Symphony No. 5. SCHUMAN: New England Triptych. IVES: Symphony No. 3; Three Places in New England. Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra. MERCURY 432 755-2 [ADD]; 77:09. Produced by Wilma Cozart Fine. MENNIN: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. PISTON: Sympnony …