Maybe you have to be English to fully appreciate this disc. One learns from the booklet that the opening of Vaughan Williams' Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 "evokes the sense of sky and space one feels in East Anglia." What details would have to be changed so that it would be evocative of, say, Bishops Itchington? Yet this disc, performed and issued by ...
While Shostakovich's serene Piano Quintet in G minor is presented as the main attraction on this RCA disc, the lion's share of the program is devoted to the less celebrated and more challenging works of his student and friend, Galina Ustvolskaya. Yet as important as her music was to Shostakovich, and as critical as his teaching was to her ...
This 1990 album by the London Chamber Orchestra could easily be entitled "The Small World of String Serenades." The well-selected program includes the works of Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, and Suk. The composition of each of their respective serenades is quite historically intertwined. Dvorák was the first to compose his serenade after winning a ...
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