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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Shaker Loops / Wound Dresser / Short Ride in a Fast Machine Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] "Bristling energy to aching desolation: a bargain survey that has real impact" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine November 2004 |
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
Gottschalk: A Night In The Tropics Hot Springs Music Festival / Richard Rosenberg [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2007 ] "If you know Gottschalk's unorthodox two-movement symphony A Night in the Tropics...hearing Richard Rosenberg's scrupulous new restoration will be akin to hearing Mussorgsky's Boris after living with Rimsky-Korsakov. Most obviously, the new edition... |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Symphony No. 2 and 3 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 5/Jan/2005 ] "Marin Alsop's accounts of these two symphonies are magnetically performed and brilliantly recorded." Penguin Guide |
JOHN ADAMS / JOHN CORIGLIANO
Adams: Violin Concerto / Corigliano: The Red Violin: Chaconne Chloe Hanslip (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin, with Charles Owen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "(Chloe's) debut with Naxos is a formidable addition to the label's encyclopaedic series of American classics...Throughout this major 20th-century concerto, the clarity of the Naxos recording is immaculate, making the balance between soloist and... |
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... |