American Art Song Today-Alive! : Songs by MUSTO, DIEMER, LARSEN, TURRIN, R.P. THOMAS, R. LANE, SUITS, & HAGEN.

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AMERICAN ART SONG TODAY—ALIVE! – Anne Marie Church (sop); Linda Sweetman-Waters (pn) – JOSARA JR 001CD (63:16) MUSTO: Shadow of the Blues. DIEMER: Four Chinese Love Poems. LARSEN: Songs from Letters. TURRIN: Twelve Haiku Songs. R. P. THOMAS: The Ballad of the Boy Who Went to Sea. R. LANE: Affirmation(exc’pts). SUITS: Joyce Songs (exc’pts). HAGEN: Echo’s Songs (exc’pts);Love Songs (exc’pts). This new …

“New York Philharmonic: An American Celebration”

wswebmaster on November 18, 2018

Following the successes of their two previous packages, New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts 1923-1927 (released in 1997) and New York Philharmonic: The Mahler Broadcasts (released in 1998), New York Philharmonic Special Editions has just issued their third such deluxe package: a ten-CD set …

Recordings that Changed My Life

wswebmaster on November 18, 2018

In order to apply this intriguing concept to my own personal experience, I must alter the terms somewhat, and discuss five groups of recordings that affected my life significantly. The first group would be those 78 rpm records that my parents owned …

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

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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, …

FLAGELLO: Symphony No. I

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Symphony No. 1 by Nicolas Flagello Nicolas Flagello composed his Symphony No. 1 during the years 1964-68; it was first performed in 1971, with the composer himself conducting the symphony orchestra of the Manhattan School of Music.  It is Flagello’s largest and most …

FLAGELLO Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra.

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Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra by Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994), [orchestrated by A. Sbordoni],World Premiere Performance Lento quasi adagio; allegro vivace ma giusto Lento andante Allegro molto Nicolas Flagello was one of the 20th century’s leading exponents of traditional late romantic …

FLAGELLO: Concerto for String Orchestra

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Concerto for String Orchestra by Nicolas Flagello Nicolas Flagello was born in New York City in 1928, to a family in which music has played a central role for several generations. (His grandfather, composer-conductor Domenico Casiello, was said to have …

“Nicolas Flagello” (biography)

wswebmaster on November 18, 2018

Nicolas Flagello was one of the last composers to develop a distinctive mode of expression based wholly on the principles and techniques of European late-Romanticism. Born in New York City in 1928, Flagello grew up in a highly musical family …