Violinist Frank Almond and pianist William Wolfram unite again for another impressive chamber music offering. Like their debut album of the Brahms violin sonatas, this recording demonstrates that artists who are less well-known can produce music that rivals or exceeds the output of artists with much more name recognition. On this recording, Almond ...
The name of Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa may be more closely associated with film music -- he won Academy Awards for his scores for Ben Hur and Hitchcock's Spellbound, to name but two -- but his concert music is fortunately being discovered anew and finding itself on more concert stages and CDs. The present album focuses on his works for violin ...
American composer Earl Kim, who died from lung cancer in 1998, is certainly a figure in contemporary music one wants to like, and for that reason alone the volume devoted to Kim in the Naxos American Classics series, Earl Kim: Violin Concerto, is automatically welcome. Once the disc goes into the machine, however, listeners hear the characteristic ...
Composer John Corigliano returns again to his very familiar film score The Red Violin for another work based on that score. This time, Corigliano has composed a set of caprices (Theme and Variations) that are immediately reminiscent of Paganini, not just because they are referred to as caprices, but also because of the specific pyrotechnic ...
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