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Glass: Complete String Quartets / The Smith Quartet
The players have lived and breathed this music – the results are stunning. The success of Philip Glass outstripped the first flush of celebrity in the 1980s and 1990s. This logical set serves further to...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 01, 2008,
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American Classics - Cage: Sonatas And Interludes / Berman
Cage's prepared piano music might be better known by reputation than by acquaintance, but this excellent new release, part of Naxos's praiseworthy ongoing exploration of seminal 20th-century works, should persuade more people to step into...
Format: CD
Release Date: August 01, 1999,
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American Classics - Joplin: Piano Rags / Peskanov
Here’s a fresh and original celebration of Scott Joplin’s piano rags performed by Alexander Peskanov. Celebrate the happy sounds of American piano music with this enjoyable collection of 14 Scott Joplin classics. These digitally-mastered selections...
Format: CD
Release Date: August 01, 2004,
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American Classics - Hovhaness: Symphony No 22, Etc
Making a welcome reappearance on CD, Symphony No. 22 "City of Light" contains some of Hovhaness' most extended thoughts, particularly in its extremely grand finale. The combination of elements is typical: sumptuous chorales, gentle dance...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 01, 2003,
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American Classics - Joplin: Piano Rags Vol 2 / Benjamin Loeb
A winning compilation, sympathetically played. The Naxos engineers have done a pretty good job too ... It’s not often that Hollywood can take the credit for rediscovering music but George Roy Hill’s 1973 film The...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 29, 2007,
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American Classics - Harris: Symphonies 3 & 4 "Folksong Symphony" / Alsop, Colorado Symphony Orchestra
I have to confess that I was a bit concerned at the opening of this new performance of Roy Harris' Third Symphony, where Marin Alsop and the otherwise very good Colorado Symphony fail to match...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 25, 2006,
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American Classics - Barber: Orchestral Works Vol 2 / Alsop
Lyricism and obsessive patterns are finely realised by the RSNO, while conductor Marin Alsop shows a keen sensitivity to both scores and balances their rhetoric with the clean-edged clarity of their textures. In addition, her...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 01, 2001,
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American Classics - Sousa: Music For Wind Band Vol 4
Includes work(s) by John Philip Sousa. Ensemble: Royal Artillery Band. Conductor: Keith Brion.
Format: CD
Release Date: February 01, 2004,
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American Classics - Glass: String Quartets Nos 1-4 / Carducci Quartet
Although Philip Glass came late to the string quartet, his contribution to the genre has since become a significant one. This disc features the first four of his five quartets, ranging from the uncharacteristic yet...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 29, 2010,
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Copland: Symphony No. 3 & Three Latin American Sketches / Slatkin, Detroit Symphony
Premiered in 1946, a year after the end of World War II, Copland’s iconic Third Symphony was described by the composer as ‘a wartime piece- or, more accurately, an end-of-war piece- intended to reflect the...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 09, 2017,
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Barber: Complete Orchestral Works / Alsop, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Reviews of the discs that make up this set: SYMPHONIES 1 & 2, ESSAY FOR ORCHESTRA 1 The First Symphony's 21-minute span seems over in a flash; the work has seldom sounded so grippingly intense...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 28, 2010