BEASER Chorale Variations. Piano Concerto. The Seven Deadly Sins

wswebmaster on November 24, 2018

BEASER Chorale Variations. Piano Concerto. The Seven Deadly Sins • Dennis Russell Davies, cond; American Composers O; Pamela Mia Paul (pn); Jan Opalach (bbar)2 • PHOENIX PHCD162 (76:47) Robert Beaser is one of many composers, now roughly middle-aged, whom commentator Terry Teachout …

COPLAND: Works for Piano Duo

wswebmaster on November 24, 2018

COPLAND Works for Piano Duo • Arianna Goldin, Rémy Loumbrozo (pns) • PHOENIX PHCD-154 (73:46) Dance of the Adolescent. Music for the Theater. El Salon Mexico (arr. L. Bernstein). Billy the Kid. Rodeo (excerpts; arr. Gold and Fizdale). Danzon Cubano. Danza de Jalisco Rather like …

Picks of the Year: 2001

wswebmaster on November 22, 2018

This year’s choices offer some very economical and efficient means of updating and refining one’s collection of the finest 20th-century music in traditional styles. Leonard Slatkin has proven to be one of the most perceptive and sympathetic conductors of Samuel …

Picks of the Year: 1993

wswebmaster on November 22, 2018

Walter Simmons: Want List 1993 This year’s selection of the five most exciting releases to come my way features an international assortment of twentieth-century treasures. I have colleague Jim North to thank for bringing to my attention the marvelous program …

BARBER: Symphony No. 1; Concerto for Piano & Orch.; Souvenirs; Canzonetta for Oboe & Strings. BRITTEN: Les Illuminations; Young Apollo. STRAUSS: Conc. for Oboe & Small Orch. WOLF-FERRARI: Idillio-Concertino. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto for Oboe & Strings.

wswebmaster on November 21, 2018

BARBER: Symphony No. 1; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Souvenirs. John Browning, Leonard Slatkin, pianists; Leonard Slatkin conducting the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. RCA VICTOR 60732-2-RC (DDD); 69:36. Produced by Jay David Saks. BARBER: Souvenirs; Canzonetta for Oboe and Strings. BRITTEN: Les Illuminations; Young Apollo. Julia …

Piano Music by AARON COPLAND, PAUL CRESTON, and MARK ZUCKERMAN

wswebmaster on November 19, 2018

Piano Music by AARON COPLAND (1900-1990), PAUL CRESTON (1906-1985), and MARK ZUCKERMAN (1948-    ) Copland: Passacaglia (1921-22) (5:41) Creston: Seven Theses, Op. 3 (1933) (9:55) a. Maestoso (2:38) b. Scorrevole ( :44) c. Espressivo (1:22) d. Giocoso ( :47) e. Grazioso (1:05) f.  Tranquillo (1:36) g. Feroce (1:25) Creston: Metamorphoses, Op. 84 (1964)* (18:19) Copland: Piano Fantasy (1955-57) (28:10) Zuckerman: On the Edges (1996)* (11:15) …

CRESTON: Piano Sonata, Op. 9; Six Preludes, Op. 38. GIANNINI: Piano Sonata. FLAGELLO: Two Waltzes; Piano Sonata

wswebmaster on November 18, 2018

Piano Music by Paul Creston (1906-1985) Piano Sonata, Op. 9* (1936); Six Preludes, Op. 38* (1945). Vittorio Giannini (1903-1966) Piano Sonata* (1963). Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994) : Two Waltzes(1953) Piano Sonata (1962). *World Premiere Recordings. Tatjana Rankovich, piano. Walter Simmons, producer. Joseph Patrych, engineer. Recorded: Jan. 6, 21, 1998; April 29, …

ARGENTO To Be Sung Upon the Water. Songs about Spring. Six Elizabethan Songs BRITTEN: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac) . A. COOKE Three Songs of Innocence. Nocturnes. MOYLAN For a Sleeping Child.

wswebmaster on November 16, 2018

ARGENTO To Be Sung Upon the Water. BRITTEN Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac) – Ellen Shade (sop) ; John Stewart (ten); Charles Russo (cls); Donald Hassard, Martin Katz (pn) – PHOENIX PHCD-129, analog (60:35 &) ARGENTO Songs about Spring. Six Elizabethan Songs– …