It is rare to be able to say that a performance forces one to listen to a work...It is rare to be able to say that a performance forces one to listen to a work anew but this is exactly what Alsop reading achieves. Excellently recorded... this is a superb issue all round.more
Roy Harris made an indelible mark on American orchestral music enlivening Old ...Roy Harris made an indelible mark on American orchestral music enlivening Old World symphonic traditions with New World individualism.more
This second Naxos disc of Copland Symphonies opens with Symphony No. 1 an arra...This second Naxos disc of Copland Symphonies opens with Symphony No. 1 an arrangement of the 1924 Symphony for Organ and Orchestra. Copland was especially fond of his Short Symphony on account of it s complex irregular rhythms and clear textures.more
0636943913420. Pre-Owned: Good condition. CD. Hearing Canadian soprano Karina ...0636943913420. Pre-Owned: Good condition. CD. Hearing Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin sing Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is almost like hearing it for the first time. She and Marin Alsop leading the Royal Scottish National Orchestra manage to wipe the...more
The Third Symphony one of Brahms s most poetic and evocative works was hailed ...The Third Symphony one of Brahms s most poetic and evocative works was hailed by the critic Eduard Hanslick as artistically the most perfect equal to the best of Brahms s works a feast for the music-lover and musician .more
Philip Glass has enjoyed a degree of popularity unusual among contemporary com...Philip Glass has enjoyed a degree of popularity unusual among contemporary composers. A pupil of Nadia Boulanger he was also influenced by the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and has won a reputation as an exponent of minimalism.more
This fourth volume in MarinAlsop s acclaimed Prokofiev symphonic cycle featur...This fourth volume in Marin Alsop s acclaimed Prokofiev symphonic cycle features two of his most viscerally exciting works. Using material salvaged from his opera The Fiery Angel the Third Symphony was hailed by Serge Koussevitzky at it s 1929...more
Widely acclaimed for their Naxos recordings of Dvorák s Symphonies Nos. 7 and...Widely acclaimed for their Naxos recordings of Dvorák s Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 and No. 9 From the New World with the Symphonic Variations Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony here present his Symphony No. 6 which at once pays tribute to Dvorák...more
International award-winning composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg has composed a dyna...International award-winning composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg has composed a dynamic new work that merges music and science. The seven-movement symphony dramatizes past present and future moon explorations and highlights discoveries that have been made...more
Completed in 1877 Brahms remarkable and impressive Symphony No. 1 was the resu...Completed in 1877 Brahms remarkable and impressive Symphony No. 1 was the result of a fourteen-year gestation period and established the composer as the leading German symphonist of his generation.more
MarinAlsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording ...Marin Alsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein s riotous satirical operetta Candide. Made almost three decades after the composer s own iconic recording with the Orchestra Alsop s new version was captured...more
Written in 1944 Prokofiev s Fifth Symphony is one of his greatest and most com...Written in 1944 Prokofiev s Fifth Symphony is one of his greatest and most complete symphonic statements. At it s premiere he himself called it a symphony of the grandeur of the human spirit . The first movement couples considerable strength with...more