Timeless Tango: Piazzola et al
TIMELESS TANGO CHANNEL Crossing CCS 10997 [57:17] PIAZZOLLA Balada para un Loco | Oblivion | La Muerte Del Angel MARCUCCI Aires Espanoles PIAZZOLLA Melodia en la menor | Buenos Aires Hora O | Tristeza de un Doble A DE CARO Boedo BROSSE Tango GRECO Ojos Negros COBIAN Seleccion de Tangos: Nostalgias | Nieblas Del Riachuelo … Read more
The New Century Saxophone Quartet
MAIN STREET USA CHANNEL Crossings CCS 9896 [55:32] Morton GOULD arr. BOATMAN Pavane from American Symphonette No.2 Main Street Waltz | Main Street March from the film ‘World War I’ GERSHWIN arr. BOATMAN Selections from Porgy and Bess: Clara, Clara | Oh, I Got Plenty O’Nuttin’ | Bess, You is My Woman Now | Oh, … Read more
Balakirev’s Piano Music
BALAKIREV: THE COMPLETE PIANO MUSIC Vols 1 & 2 ESS.A.Y Recordings CD1028/29 [45'16"] Mily BALAKIREV (1837 – 1910) Islamey (Oriental Fantasy) Fantasia on Themes from Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar (2nd version) Fantasiestück Nocturne No.1 in B-flat minor (2nd version) Nocturne No.2 in B minor Nocturne No.3 in D minor Capriccio Sonata no.1 in … Read more
Georges Cziffra: Message to the Pianists
MESSAGE A TOUS LES PIANISTES: GEORGES CZIFFRA EMI Classics CDM5 66162-2 [68'54"] Georges CZIFFRA (1921-1994) Paraphrase on The Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov) Paraphrase on Tritsch-Tratsch Polka (J Strauss) Fantaisie roumaine: improvisation dans le style tzigane Paraphrase on Valse Triste (Vecsey) BRAHMS trans. CZIFFRA 15 Hungarian Dances (transcribed for piano 2 hands) BRAHMS trans. CZIFFRA … Read more
Virgil Thomson Film Scores
VIRGIL THOMSON: THE COMPLETE FILM SCORES ESS.A.Y Recordings CD1005 [48'24"] Virgil THOMSON (1896 – 1989) The River: The Old South | Prologue | Industrial Expansion in the Mississippi Valley | Soil Erosion & Floods | Finale The Plow that Broke the Plains: Prelude & Fugue | Grass – Pastorale | Cattle | The Homesteader | … Read more
Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances: Selected Recordings & Reviews
MEDTNER | RACHMANINOV: MUSIC FOR TWO PIANOS HYPERION CDA 66654 [78'53"] MEDTNER Two Pieces Op.58 RACHMANINOV Suite No.2 Op.17 | Russian Rhapsody | Symphonic Dances Op.45 Nikolai Demidenko piano Dmitri Alexeev piano See full review here. Full-bloodied playing and an unforgiving speed gives the Dances plenty of firepower. Technically secure, the two Russian warhorses leap … Read more
Rachmaninov and the Dies Irae/Symphonic Dances
Rachmaninov and the Day of Wrath: some thoughts on Rachmaninov, Dies Irae, and the Symphonic Dances hroughout his life, Sergei Rachmaninov was plagued by the Dies Irae (“Day of Wrath”) motif from the Latin Requiem Mass. Though this motif has been used by other composers throughout the centuries (like Berlioz in La Symphonie fantastique and … Read more
Rachmaninov Music for 4 Hands: Alexeev & Demidenko
MEDTNER • RACHMANINOV: MUSIC FOR TWO PIANOS HYPERION CDA 66654 [78'53"] MEDTNER Two Pieces Op.58: Knight Errant | Russian Round-Dance (A Tale) RACHMANINOV Suite No.2 Op.17: Alla Marcia | Valse | Romance | Tarantelle RACHMANINOV Russian Rhapsody Op.posth. RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances Op.45 Dmitri Alexeev piano Nikolai Demidenko piano ccording to Rachmaninov, the 1897 premiere of … Read more
Mussorgsky’s Pictures and Tchaikovsky’s R&J: Celibidache
CELIBIDACHE/MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER: MUSSORGSKY • TCHAIKOVSKY EMI Classics Celibidache Edition 5-56516-2 [74'48"] TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare MUSSORGSKY orch. RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Sergiu Celibidache conductor Live recordings from January 1992 (Tchaikovsky) and September 1993 (Mussorgsky). Performed at the Philharmonie am Gasteig, the Munich Philharmonic’s residence which was opened … Read more
