Known internationally as an operatic composer, Gian Carlo Menotti is less frequently recognized for his numerous orchestral, chamber, and vocal works, which are generously sampled on this 2005 release from ASV. Even though Menotti displays an impressive technical acumen in his Concerto for violin and orchestra in A minor (1952) and elegant form in ...
That Camille Saint-Saëns was one of the most accomplished and successful French composers of the Romantic period is beyond doubt. That the vast majority of his music is still terra incognita to most listeners is understandable: Saint-Saëns was also one of the most prolific composers of the Romantic period, right up there with Liszt when it came to ...
While absolutely not appropriate for neophyte Shostakovich fans, this disc of two world-premiere recordings will be irresistible to longtime fans. The Tale of the Priest and His Servant, Balda, was written in 1933 for a never-completed cartoon film based on Pushkin's well-known children's story but was thought long lost. The Symphonic Suite was ...
Of the two recordings of Sergey Taneyev's Symphonies No. 1 and No. 3 released in 2007-2008, Valery Polyansky's with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra on Chandos and Thomas Sanderling's with the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra on Naxos, Sanderling's emerges as clearly superior. The Novosibirsk players, while lacking some technique, seem ...
This recording originally appeared in 1972, when it would have shared shelf space with sopranos belting out Handel's melodies over the accompaniment of giant symphonic string sections. Adele Stolte, a Bach specialist from the former East Germany, and conductor Kurt Sanderling were thus ahead of the game when they offered this selection of Handel's ...
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