For a kinder, gentler, more tuneful, and even a more danceable Stravinsky in his High neo-Classical period, try the wind chamber music Czech-French-American composer Bohuslav Martinu wrote in his High French period. Three of the works on this disc by the Ensemble Villa Musica -- Le Revue de Cuisine from 1927, the Sextet from 1929, and the Quartre ...
One of the continuing appeals of Hans Werner Henze's music is his ability to use the formidable arsenal of twentieth century musical innovations in works that have immediate aural appeal, while probing ambiguous or disturbing layers of meaning lurking beneath the surface. The complexity of his music is generally not so much apparent on its surface ...
Free of a star conductor system into which he never quite seemed to fit, Seiji Ozawa has embarked on quite a variety of activities. This recording, apparently part of an upcoming series from Sony, finds him back on home turf, at the podium of Japan's Mito Chamber Orchestra. This is a live recording, and one must object that nothing in the ...
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