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Serene Journeys through Classical Music

Delos

Available as CD

$26.99

Jan 01, 1998

It's a tough road to get where you're going nowadays - and Delos has created a wonderful new collection, including a delightful bonus, to help make the trip a little easier. Serene Journeys is a specially priced 3-CD set packaged in a 6-CD carrying case, carefully programmed with the most relaxing classical music. This tranquil collection is unique among 'mood' compilations in featuring acclaimed classical artists, such as Carol Rosenberger, Voices of Ascension, the Dallas Symphony, and the Seattle Symphony, all in a value-priced three-disc gift package. Selections include the familiar, such as Barber's Adagio [Agnus Dei], piano selections of Debussy, the Mozart Clarinet concerto, as well as other less familiar works which will help educate and enrich the listener while expanding his knowledge of the classical repertoire.

Serene Journeys through Classical Music

$26.99
CD

Delos

Jan 01, 1998

DE 1608

Panorama Of American Piano Music / Yvar Mikhashoff

Mode Records

Available as CD

$56.99

Dec 03, 2013

Classical Music

Panorama Of American Piano Music / Yvar Mikhashoff

$56.99
CD

Mode Records

Dec 03, 2013

MOD-CD-262

Griffes: The Pleasure Dome / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic

Naxos

Available as CD

$19.99

Apr 01, 2004

The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla-Khan is best known in its orchestrated version, expanded and altered somewhat from the original piano composition. It is a lush, lyrical, and dramatic work whose exotic melodies exude Middle-Eastern and Oriental influences. Of the other compositions, the Piece in D minor, from 1915, stands out. Elegant, impassioned impressionism reigns in this engaging work, and it certainly deserves wider recognition.

Though the rest of the pieces on the CD are all worth hearing, the early transcription for two pianos of the Hansel and Gretel overture is most impressive.

As performed here, it is one of the most charming duo-piano pieces in the repertoire. Michael Lewin plays the rest of the program with passion and precision, though his interpretations lack that last measure of urgency given by James Tocco on Gasparo. The recorded sound is exemplary, using 24-bit technology for the highest resolution.

--Rad Bennett, ClassicsToday.com

Griffes: The Pleasure Dome / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic

$19.99
CD

Naxos

Apr 01, 2004

8559164

Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 1: American First Sonatas / Licad

Danacord

Available as CD

$18.99

Feb 02, 2018

Also available in this series by pianist Cecile Licad: Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 2: American Nocturnes and Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 3: American Landscapes

The history of music in America is very different to a history of American music, a fact borne out by this programme of piano sonatas written between 1786 and 1944 by four American composers. Each work is the first piano sonata written by their respective creator. The stylistic richness and formal diversity of the American sonata literature are immediately apparent. Reinagle’s and MacDowell’s sonatas are American by virtue of their composers’ nationality (though a hundred years separate them, the music is unmistakably and unapologetically European in its harmonic language), while those by Griffes and Siegmeister reflect the myriad influences that subsequently contributed to and shaped a specific and distinct American musical voice.

Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 1: American First Sonatas / Licad

$18.99
CD

Danacord

Feb 02, 2018

DACOCD774

The Early String Quartet in the USA / Kohon Quartet

Vox

Available as CD

$29.99

Jan 01, 1992

Classical Music

The Early String Quartet in the USA / Kohon Quartet

$29.99
CD

Vox

Jan 01, 1992

CDX-5057

American Classics - Griffes: Complete Piano Works Vol 2

Naxos

Available as CD

$19.99

Mar 01, 2000

Charles Tomlinson Griffes only lived 35 years; his death in 1920 cut short one of the most promising careers in American music. During his short life span he created a collection of short, rhapsodic works that are full of color and romantic adventure. The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla-Khan is best known in its orchestrated version, expanded and altered somewhat from the original piano composition. It is a lush, lyrical, and dramatic work whose exotic melodies exude Middle-Eastern and Oriental influences. Of the other compositions, the Piece in D minor, from 1915, stands out. Elegant, impassioned impressionism reigns in this engaging work, and it certainly deserves wider recognition. Though the rest of the pieces on the CD are all worth hearing, the early transcription for two pianos of the Hansel and Gretel overture is most impressive. Griffes had gone to Europe to study with Humperdinck, and no doubt intended his masterful arrangement as a tribute. As performed here, it is one of the most charming duo-piano pieces in the repertoire. Michael Lewin plays the rest of the program with passion and precision, though his interpretations lack that last measure of urgency given by James Tocco on Gasparo. The latter, however did not record all of this music, so at the low Naxos price, no one should mind duplicating a few of these works. The recorded sound is exemplary, using 24-bit technology for the highest resolution. --Rad Bennett, ClassicsToday.com

American Classics - Griffes: Complete Piano Works Vol 2

$19.99
CD

Naxos

Mar 01, 2000

8559046

Taylor: Through The Looking Glass; Griffes: Poeme, Pleasure Dome Of Kubla Khan / Schwarz, Seattle Symphony

Naxos

Available as CD

~~$19.99~~ $9.99

Aug 28, 2012

Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony recorded a great deal of music, originally for Delos, now on Naxos. Much of the discography, while good, was ephemeral—yet another disc of standard repertoire—but some of it was really important: symphonies by Hanson, Piston, and Diamond, for example, and this disc. No one much cares today about music critic/composer Deems Taylor’s often charming but conservative music, but his suite Through the Looking Glass, based on Alice in Wonderland, really is worth hearing. If you know John Alden Carpenter’s Adventures in a Perambulator then you know what to expect: good tunes, colorful scoring, and a nice, light touch.

The Griffes pieces are famous, of course, as the works of one of America’s great “might have been” composers. The Poem for Flute and Orchestra is the best known, followed by the exotic Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan and The White Peacock. These evocative miniatures all point to a major talent, a life tragically cut short at the age of 36. Both here and in the Taylor work the performances are uniformly splendid: extremely well played, and just about perfectly conducted regarding tempo, texture, and balance. Scott Goff plays the flute solo in the Poem with finesse and lovely tone.

The original Delos recordings always were a bit low-level and dull on top, but this one at least has transferred well, once you find a comfortable volume setting. A great disc for collectors of turn-of-the-(20th)-century Americana.

-- ClassicsToday.com

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Taylor: Through The Looking Glass; Griffes: Poeme, Pleasure Dome Of Kubla Khan / Schwarz, Seattle Symphony

~~$19.99~~ $9.99
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Naxos

Aug 28, 2012

8559724

Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 2: American Nocturnes / Licad

Danacord

Available as CD

$24.99

Nov 03, 2017

Also available in this series by pianist Cecile Licad: Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 1: American First Sonatas and Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 3: American Landscapes

The second release in the American Piano Music series with pianist Cecile Licad features Music of the Night. Many of the works are here performed for the first time in a modern digital recording and the whole concept is a portrait of the fascinating world of piano music worth discovering. Gramophone writes: “…you hear the music first, the pianism second, and that’s a good sign, not to mention the excellent engineering and annotations. I look forward to this series further installments.” (Jed Distler) Called "a pianist's pianist" by The New Yorker, Cecile Licad's artistry is a blend of daring musical instinct and superb training. Her natural talent was honed at the Curtis Institute of Music by three of the greatest performer/pedagogues of our time: Rudolf Serkin, Seymour Lipkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. Licad's large repertoire as an orchestral soloist spans the Classical works of Mozart and Beethoven, the Romantic literature of Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Rachmaninoff, and on to the 20th century compositions of Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Bartok.

Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 2: American Nocturnes / Licad

$24.99
CD

Danacord

Nov 03, 2017

DACOCD 783-784

Various: River Songs - From North America, Ireland & Scotland / Kelly, Gaudette, Kimbrough, Baldwin

Centaur Records

Available as CD

$17.99

Aug 06, 2021

This is a great collection of songs inspired by the river. The album includes traditional folk songs, works by composers such as Stephen Foster and John Jacob Niles, as well as works by Korngold, Rorem, Weill, and others. All of these are brought to the listener in beautiful performances. The American baritone, Steven Kimbrough, studied at the University of Birmingham, Alabama, and at Princeton Theological Seminary (graduated in 1962). He had further studies in Italy. Kimbrough is well known as a recital and concert singer through many appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and with symphonies in the USA and abroad. He is the foremost interpreter of the "turn-of-the-century" school of Viennese composers (most of whom were effaced by Hitler's Third Reich), as is demonstrated by his many highly praised recordings. He has presented in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and elsewhere a recital of their songs under the title "Forbidden Composers."

Various: River Songs - From North America, Ireland & Scotland / Kelly, Gaudette, Kimbrough, Baldwin

$17.99
CD

Centaur Records

Aug 06, 2021

CRC3853