Originally released by Koch, these recordings of key works in Arnold Schoenberg's oeuvre are now part of Naxos' Robert Craft Collection, a series of reissues that reaffirms the conductor's unflagging devotion to modern music, even if the performances and recording quality periodically flag. The pieces predate Schoenberg's discovery of the twelve ...
As smooth, rich, deep, and filling a recording of the repertoire as has ever been made, this disc of part songs by Gustav Holst should appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Of course, how wide the audience for early twentieth century English part songs written by a composer known for having written The Planets is anybody's guess. That Holst ...
Britten's Five Canticles, written over a period of almost 40 years, distill and reflect the compositional issues he was addressing in his larger works during each period, some unabashedly lyrical and some melodically and harmonically spiky. Taken together, they offer a compact summary of many of the musical trends reflected in his output, and ...
The centerpiece of the Sixteen's collection of Christmas music by late Romantic and modern English composers is Britten's Ceremony of Carols. Harry Christophers, founder and conductor of the Sixteen, writes that performances of the piece have become so routine that practices alien to the composer's intent have become enshrined and unthinkingly ...
Most of this disc is for fans of Holst only -- after all, how many almost unaccompanied part songs can any human being stand? -- but on at least one song, this disc is for every spiritual human being on the planet. O Spiritual Pilgrim, Holst's setting of six lines from the "Fourth Song of The Gates of Damascus," was one of his last works and its ...
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