Arnold Rosner: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4

Album Information Arnold Rosner: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 1 Scherzo for Orchestra, Op. 29a (1964) 11:51 Concerto Grosso No. 2, Op. 74 (1979) 24:302 Lento; Allegro 8:473 Adagio 7:094 Allegro molto 8:23 5 Variations on a Theme by Frank Martin, …

Rosner: Requiem, OP. 59 (1973)

Album Information REQUIEM, OP. 59 (1973)BY ARNOLD ROSNER (1945-2013)Premiere Recording Total Timing (69:00) London Phiharmonic OrchestraNick Palmer, conductorCrouch End Festival Chorus*David Temple, Chorus MasterWalter Simmons, producerJonathan Allen, engineerRecorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, July 23, 24, 28, 2019All music available …

Rosner’s Requiem: On a Forgotten Genius of American Music

In the spring of 1970, I was about to enter the Manhattan School of Music to pursue the study of musicology. At the time, I was working at C. F. Peters Corporation, then the primary publisher of the music of Alan Hovhaness, a well-known American composer whose unusual style involved combining the modal polyphony of the Renaissance with Armenian, Indian, Japanese, and Korean elements, and who interested me greatly.

Arnold Rosner (1945-2013)

American composer Arnold Rosner died in his Brooklyn apartment on his 68th birthday, November 8, 2013. Rosner was born in New York City, where his father owned a candy store. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, NYU, and …

Second Interview with Arnold Rosner

Arnold Rosner is one of the most unusual and fascinating American composers of his generation. Born in New York City in 1945, to a culturally unsophisticated family (his father ran a candy store in northern Harlem), he took piano lessons …