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Contemporary classical

  • Share the joy of classical music: WTJU Classical Marathon airs Dec 9 – 15

    Nov 20th, 2019 | By WTJU
    Tags: Baroque music, Chamber music, Classical music, Classical piano, Concerto, Contemporary classical, contemporary classical music, early music, Orchestral music, Romantic period

    Share the joy of WTJU Classical – December 9 – 15 We need your help to raise $40,000 and keep WTJU going strong! Diverse and wide-ranging as they are, the wonderful classical music pieces you enjoy on WTJU have common themes that echo through each performance. Themes that celebrate excellence and creativity… evoke the deepest emotions… and […]

  • Kalevi Aho Concertos – Contemporary Masterworks from Finland

    Aug 29th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Ari-Pekka Mäenpää, BIS, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Contemporary classical, Erkki Lasonpalo, Eva Ollikainen, Kalevi Aho, SACD, Sonja Fräki, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

    Finnish composer Kalevi Aho is best known for his large-scale works. This release has two excellent examples: the Tympani Concerto, and the Piano Concerto No. 1. The Turku Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned the Tympani Concerto for its timpanist, Ari-Pekka Mäenpää. Speaking as a percussionist, I think it’s a masterwork. Aho worked with Mäenpää to create a […]

  • Unconquered – Michael Torke Expresses Positive Patriotism

    Jul 2nd, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Contemporary classical, Cristian Macelaru, Ecstatic Records, Michael Torke, Orchestral music, Philadelphia Orchestra

    In my opinion, Michael Torke is something of a national treasure. He has the rare ability to take elements of American culture and develop them with all the tools of a contemporary classical composer. The end result is music that sounds distinctly American. It’s always connected to the traditions of the past, but with a […]

  • Gregory and Sinchuk excel with Rachmaninoff

    Jul 3rd, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Alexander Sinchuk, Annelle K. Gregory, Bridge Records, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, Contemporary classical, Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff wrote very little for violin and piano, but that didn’t stop others from transcribing his music for those instruments. This recording collects Rachmaninoff’s three violin and piano works, plus 17 transcriptions. The earliest transcriptions by Konstantin Mostras and Mikhail Press are fairly straight-forward. Fritz Kreisler’s transcriptions provide plenty of opportunity for expressive phrasing and […]

  • Peter Lieuwen Concertos – Buoyant and animated

    Dec 7th, 2016 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Andrzej Grabiec, Carlo Alessandro Labenga, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Contemporary classical, Franz Anton Krager, Jesus Morales, Leonel Morales, Misha Quint, MSR Classics, Nicholas Jones, Peter Lieuwen, Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Texas Music Festival Orchestra

    This is a release I’d like to keep on hand for all those curmudgeons who complain that contemporary classical music is ugly and unlistenable. Peter Lieuwen’s compositions are anything but. There’s a certain exuberance in his music that I find appealing. My impression is that Lieuwen isn’t concerned with discovering new sounds never heard before […]

  • Florent Schmitt – Sonate libre

    Aug 12th, 2015 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Beata Halska, CD Review, Chamber music, Claudio Chaiquin, Contemporary classical, Florent Schmitt, Naxos

    Florent Schmitt was a near-contemporary of Claude Debussy, though he lived much longer. Debussy died before the end of the First World War, while Schmitt lived on through the Second World War as well as the start of the Cold War (he died in 1958). . While their contemporaneous music has some similarites, Schmitt’s music […]

  • Barbara Westphal – Convergences

    Jun 24th, 2015 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Andrea Clearfield, Barbara Westphal, Bridge Records, CD Review, Chamber music, Christian Ruvolo, Contemporary classical, Johannes Brahms, Romantic period

    Barbara Westphal’s latest release is an interesting blend of old and new, original music with arrangements. Johannes Brahms didn’t write any solo music for the viola, but that hasn’t stopped violists from making arrangements of some of his music for their instrument. In this case, Westphal plays arrangements of Brahms’ Sonata in E minor, Op. […]

  • Alexandre Tansman – Music for Violin and Piano

    May 27th, 2015 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Alexandre Tansman, CD Review, Chamber music, Contemporary classical, Giorgio Koukl, Klaidi Sahatçi, Naxos

    I have to admit I was not familiar with the music of Alexandre Tansman before receiving this disc to review. But after listening to it, and reading about him, I definitely want to hear more. Alexandre Tansman was born in Poland and always maintained he was a Polish composer, though he spent virtually all of his life in […]

  • Martin Fröst – Nordic Concertos

    May 18th, 2015 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Anders Hillborg, Arie van Beek, Bernhard Crusell, BIS, CD Review, Concerto, Contemporary classical, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Karin Rehnquist, Martin Fröst, Östgöta Symphony Wind Ensemble, Owain Arwel Hughes, Petter Sundkvist, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vagn Holmboe

    Martin Fröst presents an interesting program of Nordic clarinet concertos that covers a lot of ground with just four works. The two contemporary works were composed for Fröst and differ greatly in style. The two older works call out important Nordic composers, and also differ in style. Anders Hillborg’s 1998 Clarinet Concerto (Peacock Tales) is a […]

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