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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Florent Schmitt release balances the familiar with the unknown

    Dec 30th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, Florent Schmitt, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos, Nikki Chooi, Noteworthy Release, Orchestral music, Susan Platts

    This release mixes Florent Schmitt’s most recorded work –La Tragédie de Salomé — with some receiving their world recording premieres. But it’s all Schmitt, so it’s all good. Maestro JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra do well with late Romantic/early Post Romantic repertoire. Their previous Schmitt recording of Antoine et Cleopatre was outstanding. As […]

  • Another BPO Rediscovery – Vítězslav Novák

    Feb 12th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, Classical music, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos, Orchestral music, Vítězslav Novák

    There are two things I admire about the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of JoAnn Faletta. First, their high performance standards. Even their basic repertoire recordings make you sit up and take notice. Second, their commitment to expanding the repertoire. Experience has taught me that I can trust Faletta and the BSO. If they’ve […]

  • Schmitt – Antoine et Cléopâtre

    Jan 11th, 2016 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Florent Schmitt, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos, Orchestral music, Romantic period

    Up until about 1940, Florent Schmitt was one of most frequently-performed living French composers. Although his music virtually disappeared from the repertoire after the Second World War, recent recordings (like this one) have helped a new generation rediscover this remarkable composer. The two orchestral suites Florent Schmitt extracted from his 1920 musique de scène “Antoine […]

  • Falletta and Buffalo Philharmonic Excel with Early Bartok

    Dec 3rd, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bela Bartok, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos, Orchestral music

    A young Bela Bartók wrote he was “roused as by a clap of thunder at the first performance of Also sprach Zarathustra.. The work brought me  to a pitch of enthusiasm. I felt a reaching out to something new. I threw myself into the study of Strauss.” That inspiration is quite evident in this collection […]

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    Gliere Symphony No. 3 – An epic journey

    Apr 7th, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos, Reinhold Gliere, Romantic period, Symphony

    Gliere’s sprawling symphony takes the listener on an epic sonic odyssey. From the somber opening bars that foreshadow the arrival of the heroic Il’ya Muromets, to the closing chords where Muromets and his brave Bogatyrs knights are defeated and turned to stone, Giere weaves a tightly-constructed narrative that’s both coherent and immersive. The first recording of […]

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    Tyberg Symphony Saved from Holocaust

    Dec 20th, 2013 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, Fabio Bidini, JoAnn Falletta, Marcel Tyberg, Naxos, Orchestral music

    Austrian composer Marcel Tyberg’s career (and life) was cut short by the Second World War. Despite being a devout Roman Catholic, he was arrested by the Nazis in 1943 because his great grandfather was Jewish. Fortunately, he entrusted his music to a friend before his death in 1944 en route to Auschwitz. Tyberg didn’t compose […]

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    Marcel Tyberg – A Voice Not Silenced

    Jan 23rd, 2013 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, Chamber music, JoAnn Falletta, Marcel Tyberg, Michael Ludwig, Naxos, Orchestral music, Roman Mckinulov, Ya-Fe Chuang

    Marcel Tyberg finished his third symphony in 1943, shortly before his arrest by the Nazis and death at Auswitz. Fortunately, he entrusted all of his scores to a friend and so they survived the war. The symphony is a marvelous post-romantic work, and reminds me very much of Bruckner’s 4th Symphony without in any way […]

  • Suk’s Fairy Tale has Happy Ending, Beginning, and Middle

    Apr 16th, 2011 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, Classical music, JoAnn Falletta, Josuf Suk, Michael Ludwig, Naxos, orrchestral

    This new release features three orchestral works by Czech composer Josef Suk, son-in-law to Antonin Dvorak. JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra turn in solid performances of these works and produce a disc that rewards repeated listening. Suk’s Fantasy in G minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 24 starts the program. Michael Ludwig shines […]

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