Since you are interested in Nancarrow: Pieces for Small Orchestra / Tango? / String Quartet No. 1, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
STEFAN WOLPE
Wolpe: The Man from Midian / Violin Sonata Cameron Grant (piano) / James Winn (piano) / Jorja Fleezanis (violin) / Garrick Ohlsson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] His music of this period was the result ofan encounter between European cultural and historical ideas and Middle Eastern melodies and structures, as can be heard in his score for the ballet The Man from Midian. Wolpe described his Sonata for Violin... |
ROBERTO SIERRA
New Music with a Caribbean Accent Continuum / Cheryl Seltzer / Joel Sachs [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] Roberto Sierra is one of the freshest voices of recent American composition. The diverse folk traditions and popular music of the Caribbean have been in his blood since he was young, and he frequently evokes these cultures, transforming them with... |
ELLEN TAAFE ZWILICH
Millennium Fantasy / Images / Peanuts Gallery Jeffrey Biegel (piano) / Read Gainsford (piano) / Heidi Louise Williams (piano) / Florida State University Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Jiménez [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The sonics are also excellent: bright, clean, and well-balanced. A splendid disc, then, in all respects, and a mandatory acquisition if you're interested in good contemporary music." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
CHARLES IVES
Piano Sonata No.2 'Concord' / The Celestial Railroad Steven Mayer (Piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "The Mayer recording is also musically excellent and prefaces each of the four movements, which are named for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and others, with readings that give a context for Ives' understanding of these historic figures and... |