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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"... |
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Rzewski: The People United will never be Defeated Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] "This is another excellent Naxos release, and should be snapped up by anyone with even the mildest interest in 20th century piano music, or just piano music in general." (MusicWeb April 2008) |
GERSHWIN / JOHNSON / RESER / SUESSE
Jazz Nocturne - American Concertos of the Jazz Age Tatiana Roitman / Gary Hammond / Dan Yappie / Peter Mintun / Michael Gurt / Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, Richard Rosenberg [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/May/2011 ] A fantastic selection of concertos from the American Jazz Age including Gershwin's immortal A Rhapsody in Blue, heard here in its complete original version for jazz band, orchestrated by Ferde Grofé. Grofé also orchestrated the Concerto in Three... |
ROY HARRIS
Complete Piano Music Geoffrey Burleson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "Burleson is a remarkable pianist, with tireless attack, unflagging rhythm and energy to burn." The Boston Globe |
DAVE BRUBECK
Brubeck: Songs John De Haan (tenor) / Jane Giering De Haan (soprano) / Dave Brubeck (piano) / Cliff Jackson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/May/2005 ] "A disc that can be whole-heartedly recommended. Some of the finest songs I have heard for a long time. And you do get used to the singing, too!" - MusicWeb April 2005 |
DAVE BRUBECK
Nocturnes John Salmon (Piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] "The music may not be of the barnstorming kind but the whole disc is a valuable document of one of the most versatile of American composers" (MusicWeb Oct 2006) |
Kenneth Boulton, piano
Siegmeister, Elie-Piano Music Vol 2 (Incls Piano Sonata No 2) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Another new entry in the Naxos American composer series |
GEORGE FREDERICK McKAY
Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains Ludmilla Kovaleva, piano / Brian Reagin, violin / Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra / John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2005 ] "Naxos's third McKay disc ... a worthy revival of music that could otherwise have been lost to posterity" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
COLON NANCARROW
Nancarrow: Pieces for Small Orchestra / Tango? / String Quartet No. 1 Mia Wu (violin) Mark Steinberg (violin) Rachel Evans (viola) Maria Kitsopoulos, cello / Cheryl Seltzer (piano) Joel Sachs (piano) etc [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] The United States has spawned numerous composers so original that they were initially rejected as eccentrics. Among the best known are Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Lou Harrison. For many years, rumours told of another such musician,... |
ROREM / HOVHANESS / QUATE / CRESTON
American Saxophone Music Neil Hornsby (Guitar) / Jeremy Limb (Piano) / Alex Mitchell (Saxophones) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] Although it was the brainchild of a Belgian inventor, Adolphe Sax, the saxophone is commonly thought of as the quintessential American instrument, not least for the pivotal rôle it has played in jazz during key stages of the music's evolution. |
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... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Songs, Vol. 5 Robert Gardner (baritone) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Ian Howell (counter tenor) Sumi Kittelberger (soprano) Leah Wool (mezzo) Douglas Dickson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "These songs, with all their quirks and flights of fantasy, [are] among the most important of the 20th century in any language." The Guardian |
VERNON DUKE
Piano Concerto / Cello Concerto / etc Scott Dunn (piano) Sam Magill (Cello) / Russian Philharmonic / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "Duke's music is tuneful and accessible. Both concertos are lovingly performed, as well as the Homage to Boston Suite." --Review by Giv Cornfield, November 2007 |
ROREM
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Cello Concerto Simon Mulligan (piano) / Wen-Sinn Yang (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Jose Serebrier [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2007 ] "Better late than never, these Rorem premieres are irresistible. Finely recorded, it's a clear winner for the Naxos American Classics series." (Gramophone Dec 2007) |
NICOLAS FLAGELLO
Piano Concerto No. 1 / Dante's Farewell / Concerto Sinfonico Susan Gonzalez (Soprano) / Tatjana Rankovich (Piano) / Kynan Johns (Conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 16/Jul/2006 ] Nicolas Flagello was one of the last American composers to pursue traditional romantic musical values, intensified by modernist innovations in harmony and rhythm, but without the irony or detachment of postmodernism. |
