Violinist James Ehnes unites with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Bramwell Tovey for this noteworthy collection of concertos by Korngold, Barber, and Walton. Ehnes' sound seems to be especially well suited for these three works, each demanding rich, fluid tone; stellar technique; and exceptional sensitivity and musicality. ...
Listeners who come to this disc looking for the lush textures of Debussy and the lucid colors of Ravel will be disappointed. Likewise, listeners who come looking for the wit of Satie or warmth of tone of Poulenc will also be disappointed. But listeners who come looking for music that is dry but sweet, cool but colorful, witty but not ironic, and, ...
Albert Roussel: Psalm 80 -- Aeneas is a release on the French Timpani label combining four little-heard works of Roussel dating from his last years, and it is an intelligently conceived program that helps open the door to Roussel's late style. Of the four works presented here, only the Fanfare pour un sacre païen and Aeneas have been recorded ...
This disc of music by Glenn Buhr illustrates a sense of relationship to the environment this American writer finds in contemporary Canadian classical music. There could be no musical landscape more Canadian than that of the opening orchestral trilogy, Winter Poems, inspired by the vast view of the frozen land seen from Buhr's high-rise on the edge ...
Bach/Busoni is a composer; there are so many transcriptions and editions of Johann Sebastian Bach by Ferruccio Busoni that one needs a worklist separate from Busoni's own in order to make sense of it all. Pianist Sara Davis Buechner has undertaken the daunting task of recording all of Busoni's glosses on Bach in Koch's series The Bach-Busoni ...
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