Existing fans of violinist Joshua Bell are already well-acquainted with the broad scope of repertoire and performance abilities ranging deftly from the classical concerto repertoire to his well-known collaborations with Edgar Meyer. For those unfamiliar with Bell's recorded works, this two-disc set of The Essential Joshua Bell provides quite a ...
Credo by Hélène Grimaud is one of the most effectively sequenced discs ever released. The movement from the hazy postmodernism of John Corigliano's Fantasia on an Ostinato for solo piano and the passionate Romanticism of Beethoven's Tempest Sonata for solo piano, then on through the Enlightenment ecstasy of Beethoven's Choral Fantasia for piano ...
The title of the Red Violin Concerto by John Corigliano may suggest to some listeners that they're getting an expanded version of the composer's music from the successful film, which grew from a recurring motif in the film soundtrack itself to the closely related The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra. This is not exactly true; the last ...
Appreciation of this CD may depend on a strong interest in flute music or an admiration of Alexa Still, but there are few other attractions. The three works for flute and orchestra presented here are certainly competent contributions to the modern flute repertoire, but they are also peculiarly uninspired. John Corigliano's The Pied Piper Fantasy ...
This album of violinist Elmar Oliveira and pianist Robert Koenig does what more albums should be doing: taking lesser-known works and showing the listener why he/she should be household names through magnificent and convincing performances. The three works on the program give a wonderful cross-section of what American art music has to offer, from ...
Despite the prominent placement of John Corigliano's two short character pieces, the sentimental Snapshot: Circa 1909 (which is a rather literal interpretation of the cover photograph of the composer's father and uncle) and the quirky and brief string quartet A Black November Turkey (1995), are the disc's most compelling work, and the most likely ...
This is an unusually sumptuous release for the Naxos label, with a fully designed sleeve bearing a sharp picture of young British soloist Chloë Hanslip placed over the usual Naxos template cover. The enhanced presentation is understandable, for the program is an unusually ambitious one -- it attempts to present an entirely fresh and crowd-pleasing ...
Celebrated for his vivid orchestral pieces and effective scores for such films as Altered States and The Red Violin, John Corigliano is somewhat less renowned for his chamber music and keyboard oeuvre. Yet his international career took off with the premiere of his Sonata for violin and piano (1963), and he has periodically composed important works ...
Few can challenge John Corigliano's mastery of orchestration and his fertile musical imagination, which encompasses all styles and techniques and brings the most diverse elements together into fluid, coherent pieces that almost always work. However, Corigliano's virtuosity as a composer may seem to some too much for show, and his eclecticism a ...
This elegantly rendered disc of chamber music can be recommended to audiences beyond the primary ones of oboe and English horn players. Having these instruments as a common element among the half-dozen highly diverse pieces presented can help the listener get a handle on some of the thornier styles of the twentieth century, especially inasmuch as ...
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