The impetus for Akira Ifukube's intensely rhythmic and assertive music -- indeed, the source of inspiration for his career as a composer -- was his first hearing of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps. Yet listeners may feel somewhat misled by this frequently cited biographical fact, and find instead that Ifukube's orchestral music sounds more like ...
Three out of the four pieces on this all-Shostakovich disc feature the artistry of Dmitry Yablonsky either as a cellist, a conductor, an arranger, or all three -- and one of them has nothing whatsoever to do with Yablonsky. If you think that sounds like an unlikely program, you're right. If you think that sounds like an unbalanced program, you're ...
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