Based on the recorded evidence, if you want spirited and insightful performances of eastern European romantic orchestral repertoire, Gianandrea Noseda is the conductor of choice. In his previous discs of Liszt's tone poems and Dvorák's concertos for violin and for piano, the young Italian conductor had turned in effective and affecting ...
Compared with the rest of his relatively well-recorded compositions, the works featured on this Shostakovich disc can be lumped into the "all-but-forgotten" category. In fact, further investigation reveals that for all three of the works on this disc, the number of recordings currently available can be counted on two hands. Forgotten does not mean ...
Between the years of 1848 and 1858, Franz Liszt churned out an impressive 12 symphonic poems. These works have regrettably become somewhat scarce on symphony concert programs despite the fact that they are every bit as engaging as his more frequently performed piano works. In this third volume of Liszt's symphonic poems, Gianandrea Noseda and the ...
The second volume of Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic's survey of Liszt's symphonic poems has perhaps the best coupling of the series because it features Liszt's two best works in the form: Eine Faust Symphonie and Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave). Subtitled "Three character portraits after Goethe," Liszt's ...
The period of 1880-1920 is littered with forgotten composers who did not respond to the clarion call of incipient modernism, a trend many in hindsight view as historically inevitable. However, if one could travel back to 1910, one would learn that very idea the decade 1900-1910 would be best remembered by works such as Debussy's La Mer, Scriabin's ...
While Luigi Dallapiccola is most remembered for his serial compositions, listeners may be surprised to find that much of his output is quite approachable and highly enjoyable. Dallapiccola occasionally wrote openly tonal works in a neo-Classical vein, and several of his milder twelve-tone pieces lean toward tonality in their triad-based rows and ...
Prokofiev's last ballet, The Stone Flower, is among the composer's final works. It's an engaging piece, hardly more challenging in expressive language than a Tchaikovsky ballet. It is very tuneful, with twenty or more attractive melodies, many recycled from earlier Prokofiev works: the festive No. 7, Round Dance, is borrowed from the two-part film ...
The story of the tragic love affair of Francesca da Rimini, taken from Dante's "Inferno," has inspired numerous musical works, including operas by Ambroise Thomas, Riccardo Zandonai, and Hermann Goetz, but the only enduring piece on the subject is Tchaikovsky's 1876 symphonic fantasy. He had originally planned an opera on the story, but was ...
Despite the interest in Gustav Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major generated by the much-publicized and imaginative editions of Clinton Carpenter, Joseph Wheeler, and Remo Mazzetti, Jr., the performing version that has become the most firmly established in the repertoire is Deryck Cooke's fairly conservative completion, which many ...
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