Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras (Complete)

This is a three-CD set that includes all of Villa-Lobos’ moody Bachianas Brasileiras. The best known is the fifth, for soprano and eight cellos (well performed here), but there is a wealth hidden among the others. There are dance movements galore; the second builds to a wonderfully percussive and powerful final movement; the eighth, despite an upbeat old folk dance as its centerpiece, has a melancholic warmth that is irresistible. The flute and bassoon duet that makes up No. 6 is rich and expre…
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Hanson: Symphonies 2 & 4, Elegy

Few composers have managed the development from European musical roots into full-fledged American masters as skillfully as Howard Hanson (1896-1981). Director of the Eastman School of Music for four decades, he left a lasting imprint on American concert music. Conductor David Montgomery was the last pupil of the legendary René Leibowitz. He made his debut in 1969 at the Schönberg Festival in Lyon. That same year, he began his work as Associate Conductor with the Santa Fe Opera. Numerous appe…
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Beautiful Wedding: Ceremony Reviews

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Huron Carol / Phoenix Chamber Choir, Ramona Leungen (Director) Reviews

For its second seasonal recording, Phoenix Chamber Choir has chosen music almost exclusively of the 20th century, music which weaves a richly layered story of Christmas from around the world. This varied collection of compositions and arrangements from Canada, Britain, Denmark, Germany, the United States, and Sweden reflects the myriad of images, sentiments and emotions awakened by the events in Bethlehem almost 2000 years ago. Re-capture the truest, the most magical spirit of the season – hop…
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Korngold: Sinfonietta; Violin Concerto Reviews

Because he was one of the first and greatest of all film composers, critics used to sneer that everything Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote sounded like movie music. The truth, of course, was just the opposite–it’s the movie music that sounds like Korngold! One of the great child prodigies in musical history, he had a mature style fully in place by the time he was about eleven years old, and he never looked back. The Sinfonietta predates his involvement with film, and the Violin Concerto actu…
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Dohnanyi: Serenade in C Major, Op. 10; Brahms: Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36 / Sitkovetsky, NES Chamber Orchestra

Dmitry Sitkovetsky, who conducts the NES Chamber Orchestra on this disc, follows in the footsteps of J.S. Bach, Gustav Mahler, and Rudolf Barshai in taking chamber works of other composers and transcribing them for larger orchestral forces. What we have here are two such transcriptions. The Dohnanyi Serenade in C Major was originally a string trio (a youthful opus 10) and the Brahms a string sextet. Of the two, the Dohnanyi achieves the greater level of illumination. Sitkovetsky allows the work’…
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Jacqueline Du Pre: A Celebration of Her Unique Enduring Gift Reviews

JACQUELINE DU PRE:CELEBRATION – DVD Movie…
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Bach – Mass in B Minor / Ruth Holton, Matthias Rexroth, Christoph Genz, Klaus Mertens, Georg Christoph Biller

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One Hit Wonders Reviews

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Artist: ONE HIT WONDERS
Title: ONE HIT WONDERS
Street Release Date: 01/14/2003
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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Naomi & Ruth / Sacred Service for Sabbath Eve (Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)

“This is one of the purest and most touching compositions you have ever written,” wrote fellow émigré composer Ernst Toch to his friend Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco after hearing his cantata Naomi and Ruth. For Castelnuovo-Tedesco, America offered new opportunities to deepen and develop his Italian musical heritage and his Jewish spirituality. He dreamed that he might hear his Sacred Service “once in the synagogues of Florence,” but instead this major work was premiered at New York’s Park Avenu…
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