The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...
American composer Robert Erickson (1917-1997) came out of the Midwest, but made California home for most of his professional career, and it was there that he established himself as one of the earliest and most influential proponents of the American avant-garde. This disc collects a variety of his works from the '60s through the '80s. The latest ...
Much of the neo-Romantic music of the 1980s may seem contrived and even a bit insincere today, but John Anthony Lennon came by his style honestly without resorting to postmodern appropriation or facile imitation of older music. The passionate quality of his work flows naturally from his poetic sensibility, and his language is recognizably romantic ...
New York-based Continuum ensemble is a first-class chamber organization under the direction of Joel Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer, winning considerable acclaim for its challenging and original approach to programming contemporary music. Continuum ensemble's relationship with the music of Henry Cowell goes back to their third season as a performing unit ...
Although it would appear that Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music 2 is a follow-up to Continuum ensemble's Naxos American Classics release Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music 1, it is actually the latter's predecessor and successor. Initially recorded for vinyl release on Musical Heritage Society in 1984, this was among the ...
Previously released by the Musical Heritage Society in 1991, this 2005 Naxos reissue is heartily recommended for its remarkable variety; and the outstanding new music ensemble Continuum should be commended for perpetuating Conlon Nancarrow's fascinating legacy. Known to many listeners as an eccentric, experimental composer for the player piano, ...
Charles Ives: Piano, Chamber & Vocal Works is Naxos American Classics' reissue of a stimulating and magnificently well-played album originally appearing on the Musical Heritage Society label, recorded in 1986 and 1987. Joel Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer are pianists who play as a duo, and separately, within the Continuum ensemble. In the selection of ...
Roberto Sierra, born in Puerto Rico in 1953, has one of the most attractive compositional voices among contemporary academic composers in the U.S. His works are notable for their rhythmic vitality and for the strong lyrical impulse that underlies their thoroughly modern harmonic language. The chamber music in this collection was written relatively ...
The nine compositions on this 2005 Naxos reissue form a varied and vivid portrait of Ruth Crawford Seeger, whose ruggedly assertive works have gradually entered the standard repertoire, and whose reputation as an important American modernist has grown steadily over the years because of worthy recordings like this one. Through the excellent ...
Naxos' bargain-priced compilation of three of its previously released discs of music by Philip Glass is especially valuable because it consists entirely of works for orchestra, a genre in which he is not especially well represented on recordings. (Many of his film scores are written for orchestra, but his absolute music -- symphonies and concertos ...
Five of the discs on this six-CD set are previously released Naxos recordings of a broad variety of works by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The set offers a generous sampling of works spanning the composer's career, from his polystylistic Collage über BACH (1964) for orchestra to his 2001 Nunc dimittis for a cappella chorus. The bulk of the ...
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