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CHARLES WUORINEN
Tashi / Percussion Quartet / Fortune New Jersey Percussion Ensemble / The Group for Contemporary Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] Charles Wuorinen writes virtuosic music for virtuoso performers. He has a profound desire to engage with the listener and with sympathetic performers, and essential to this engagement is a spirit of adventure and fun. |
JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Complete Piano Music Ralph van Raat (piano) with Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] The works on this disc span his entire career to date, and illustrate his many different styles of writing for the piano. Phrygian Gates and China Gates - "gate" here referring to a type of electronic switch - could be regarded as his first "minimal"... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: An American in Paris / Porgy and Bess Suite / Cuban Overture / etc New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2002 ] Recorded at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, 2001 |
VIRGIL THOMSON
Thomson: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Aug/2002 ] "the New Zealand Symphony is the best [Thomson recording] yet" |
SANCTUS
Sanctus: Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation Oxford Camerata / Rose Consort of Viols / Slovak Philharmonic Choir / Scholars Baroque Ensemble / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation |
CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN
Cadman: Piano Trio in D major / Quintet for Piano & Strings / etc Paul Posnak (piano) Peter Zazofsky (violin) / Bergonzi String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Apr/2002 ] "Naxos's apparently indefatigable 'American Classics' project has turned up yet another minor but not uninteresting figure. The American performers, led by the excellent pianist Paul Posnak, do their best with Cadman's thick textures and sprawling... |
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
Carpenter - Chamber Music Paul Posnak, piano / Vega String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 12/Jan/2003 ] "The Naxos recording is forthright, resonant and startlingly well up to the impressively big movement of the 1912 Sonata. Carpenter, who on the basis of this movement alone should be a great name, proves capable of building a beautifully judged... |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Appalachian Spring / Clarinet Concerto / Quiet City Paula Engerer (cor anglais) / Scott Moore (trumpet) / Laura Ardan (clarinet) / Nashville Chamber Orchestra / Paul Gambill (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "Gambill conducts the Appalachian Spring as well as anyone ever has; he's particularly adept at sustaining the flow of the slower sections without letting the music sag, and he gets an astonishingly full sound from his ensemble. Sonics of ideal... |
PAUL MORAVEC
The Time Gallery Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Violin) Aaron Shorr (Piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] The Time Gallery, a chamber work in four movements, is among the latest installments in Moravec’s rapidly growing opus. A “meditation,” as the composer puts it, on various aspects of time, whether temporal duration, clocks, or human pulse. |
GEORGE ROCHBERG
Violin Concerto (restored original version) Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) / Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] "The Rochberg concerto is a powerful work with music of grit and emotionally fluency sustained across five meaty movements. It stands alongside the superb William Schuman concerto (also recorded by Naxos) as one of the finest concerted works by an... |