FAST JUMP ● LANG memory pieces. KOZIK Fast Jump. FITKIN Relent. BURHANS In Time of Desperation. NARVESON ripple

FAST JUMP ● Danny Holt (pn) ● INNOVA 734 (79:49) LANG memory pieces. KOZIK Fast Jump. FITKIN Relent. BURHANS In Time of Desperation. NARVESON ripple. This is a remarkably rewarding program of music for piano solo composed between the years 1997-2005, and performed with convincing authority and extraordinary dexterity by the California-based …

BARBER Piano Concerto. Essays for Orchestra: Nos. 1-3

BARBER Piano Concerto.  Essays for Orchestra: Nos. 1-3 ● Daniel Kawka, cond; National SO of RAI; Giampaolo Nuti (pn) ● STRADIVARIUS STR-33814 (58:36) As most of Samuel Barber’s music has been gradually entering the active repertoire during the past three decades, the works …

BARBER: Motetto. Two Choruses, Op. 8. Agnus Dei, Op. 11. Heaven-Haven, Op. 13, No. 1. Sure on This Shining Night, Op. 13, No. 3. A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15. Reincarnations, Op. 16. Two Choruses, Op. 42. Easter Chorale

BARBER Motetto. Two Choruses, Op. 8. Agnus Dei, Op. 11. Heaven-Haven, Op. 13, No. 1. Sure on This Shining Night, Op. 13, No. 3. A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15. Reincarnations, Op. 16. Two Choruses, Op. 42. Easter Chorale. …

TCHAIKOVSKY: Manfred Symphoony, Op. 58.

TCHAIKOVSKY: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the London Sym­phony Orchestra. CBS MASTERWORKS MK-36673 [ADD]; 55:20. Produced by Steven Epstein. TCHAIKOVSKY: Manfred Symphony, Op, 58. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Concertgebouw Orche­stra, Amsterdam. LONDON 421 441-2 [DDD]; 55:37. Produced by Paul Myers. Classical …

SUCHON: Balladic Suite; Metamorphosis, Symphonic Fantasy on B-A-C-H. JUROVSKY: Symphony No. 2 (“Heroic”)

SUCHOŇ: Balladic Suite; Metamorphoses. Klará Havliková, piano. RCA (Germany) PRL1-9056 (26.41393). SUCHOŇ: Symphonic Fantasy on B-A-C-H. JUROVSKÝ: Symphony No. 2 (“Heroic”). Ferdinand Klinda, organ; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ludovít Rajter. RCA (Germany) PRL1-9055 (26.41392). Eugen Suchoň (1908-1993) may be an unknown name in this country, but he …

SCRIABIN: Symphony No. 1 in E, Op. 26. Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 29. Symphony No. 3, Op.43. Symphony No. 4, Op. 54. Symphony No. 5, Op. 60.

SCRIABIN: Symphony No. 1 in E, Op. 26. Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 29. Sym­phony No. 3, Op. 43 (“The Divine Poem”). Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 (“The Poem of Ec­stasy”) Symphony No. 5, Op. 60 (“Prometheus—Poem of Fire”). Doris Soffel, mezzo-soprano, and Fausto Tenzi, tenor (in Symphony No. 1); Wolfgang …