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CD Review

  • Florence Price Piano Music a Major Discovery

    Jun 21st, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Blue Griffen, CD Review, Classical piano, contemporary classical music, Florence Price

    Florence Price’s music was mostly ignored when she composed it. Now, however, the works of this African-American artist are being reevaluated. And performed. And recorded. But it almost didn’t happen at all. Many of Price’s manuscripts were considered lost after her sudden death in 1953. In 2009, her abandoned summer home was under renovation. The […]

  • Selim Palmgren Complete Piano Works Volume 5 focuses on exoticism

    Jun 16th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Classical piano, contemporary classical music, Grand Piano, Jouni Somero, Selim Palmgren

    Volume five of Grand Piano’s Palmgren focuses on the exotic. As with the other volumes, there are several world premiere recordings. That’s not surprising. Only a fraction of Palmgren’s roughly 400 works has ever been recorded. What continues to surprise me is the quality and variety of Palmgren’s compositions. He was an excellent pianist. That […]

  • La Compagnia del Madrigale completes Gesualdo cycle

    Jun 15th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Carlo Gesualdo, CD Review, choral music, Classical music, early music, Glossa, La Compagnia del Madrigale, renaissance music

    Carlo Gesualdo murdered his wife and her lover. That’s pretty much all most people know about this Renaissance composer — if anything. This release presents Gesualdo’s first book of madrigals. It was published around the time of the murders. There’s no question Gesualdo was a tortured soul. He abused both his first and second wives. […]

  • Violin Concertos by Johannes Brahms; Amanda Maier; Julius Rontgen

    Jun 14th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Amanda Maier, CD Review, Cecilia Zilliacus, Classical music, Concerto, db Productions, Johannes Brahms, Julius Rontgen, Kristiina Poska, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Romantic period, Vasteras Sinfonietta

    This release brings together three violin concertos by three close friends — Johannes Brahms, Julius Rontgen, and his wife, Amanda Maier. Rontgen and Maier were both talented violinists. The couple performed together, and even composed together. Brahms would visit the Rontgen home when in town. And Brahms and Rontgen gave public concerts together in Amsterdam. […]

  • Schubert Sonatas come together for Anne-Marie McDermott

    Jun 9th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Anne-Marie McDermott, Bridge Records, CD Review, Classical music, Classical piano, Franz Schubert, Romantic period

    Sometimes it all comes together — the music, the artist, the venue, the recording. That’s what happens with this release. It features two of Schubert’s most popular and challenging piano sonatas: The Piano Sonata in D major, D.850, and the Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D.960. Both of Schubert’s sonatas are loose in form. At […]

  • Louis Glass Symphony No. 4 – Big (but not bad)

    Jun 7th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, contemporary classical music, CPO, Daniel Raiskin, Orchestral music, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie

    Danish composer Louis Glass studied with Niels Gade. While at the Brussels Conservatory, he came under the influence of Anton Bruckner. If nothing else, Bruckner’s symphonies encouraged Glass to think big. Glass’ Symphony No. 4 runs a little short of an hour. The four-movement work is big, but not sprawling. The material simply needs a lot […]

  • Paul Wranitzky Works for Oboe — Works for Me!

    Jun 4th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: ArcoDiva, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, Marek Stiec, Paul Wranitzky, Vilem Veverka, Wranitzky Kapell

    Paul Wranitzky is gradually emerging from the shadows of his colleagues. Both Haydn and Beethoven preferred Wrantizky as a conductor of their works. His opera “Oberon” directly inspired Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” In 1790s Vienna, Wranitaky’s music was performed as often as that of the Big Three — if not more so. Recordings like this […]

  • Johann Vanhal Symphonies, Volume 5 — More, please!

    Jun 2nd, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Johann Baptist Vanhal, Michael Halász, Naxos, Orchestral music

    Volume five of Naxos’ Vanhal series features some significant works. It includes his Symphony in C, Bryan C7b. This was one of Vanhal’s most popular and widely disseminated compositions. It was even performed at the Esterhazy orchestra, directed by Haydn. Some of the printed editions mistakenly credit the work to Haydn! Though composed in 1772, […]

  • Bacewicz and Tansman Piano Quintets –Three Takes on Neoclassicism

    Jun 1st, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Aleksander Tansman, CD Review, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Grazyna Bacewicz, Julia Kociuban, Messages Quartet, Noteworthy Release

    According to the album’s liner notes, this release presents three neoclassical piano quintets. It does if we understand the term at its broadest definition. Grazyna Bacewicz’s first piano quintet does fit the term, at least in form. But this 1952 work has more in common with Igor Stravinsky’s take on the term than Ottorino Resphigi’s. […]

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