These may not be the finest recordings of Copland's orchestral works ever committed to disc -- after all, they have competition from Bernstein, Slatkin and, of course, Copland himself -- but for listeners who love the music, they will still provide a thrill and a chill. The twenty first century Buffalo Philharmonic is not the same orchestra it was ...
Mr. Tambourine Man, John Corigliano's 35-minute song cycle for amplified soprano and orchestra, had a unique genesis. Corigliano took texts from songs by Bob Dylan, and treated them purely as poetry, without using or referring to Dylan's music. He professes not to even know the Dylan originals, but frankly, it's a little hard to believe that ...
Daron Hagen's opera Shining Brow deals with one of the great tragedies in American history, one that relatively few Americans know about: in 1914 a crazed servant killed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's family and burned his specially built home, the first "Taliesin," to the ground. For an America that has witnessed celebrity tragedies like the ...
Naxos' Richard Strauss: Josephs-Legende-Rosenkavalier features JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic in three suites Strauss cobbled together in his last years from earlier stage works. While this contains the authentic suite Strauss compiled from Der Rosenkavalier in 1945, far more commonly heard and recorded is a suite assembled by ...
Italian composer Ottorino Respighi's name is almost synonymous with his wildly popular set of three orchestral suites referred to collectively as the Roman Trilogy. Regrettably, many of his numerous other orchestral compositions are rarely heard in the concert hall and are infrequently recorded. Naxos does listeners a great service by ...
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