Even though he was widely celebrated as one of the most important American musicians of the twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein has already become the subject of a critical reassessment and cautious revival in the early twenty first. This 2005 Naxos CD presents three of Bernstein's appealing but underplayed and under-appreciated concert works, ...
The gift that conductor and composer José Serebrier inherited from his former mentor, Leopold Stokowski, is immediately apparent upon even a brief listen to this album. Both men have an alluring gift: the ability to make an orchestra sound gorgeous. Serebrier is perhaps one of the few remaining authoritative spokesmen for Stokowski, and his ...
Virgin Classics' compilation of two of the three concertos by composer Antonin Dvorák provides listeners with a suitable, though incomplete, introduction to these works. Opening with the Op. 33 Piano Concerto -- arguably the least successful and least often performed of his concertos -- listeners are immediately treated to a wonderfully strong, ...
Despite the increased popularity of George Dyson's long-neglected Symphony in G (1937), this expansive piece seems to be admired more for its accessible tonality and evocative Romanticism than for any thematic originality, emotional depth, or inherent greatness. Often compared to or contrasted with the symphonies of Walton and Vaughan Williams, ...
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