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| 885.1 | | DSSDEV::CHALTAS | What are you doing, Dave? | Mon Aug 31 1987 13:13 | 11 |
| There isn't too much of what you're looking for around, but
I've seen William Schuman's 7th symphony.
You might look for stuff by Martinu?
George Rochberg fits in, but I'm not usually too impressed.
Try John Adams. He's not neo-Romantic, but he does get pretty
lush (2nd movement of Harmonielehre, for example).
Try Sir Micheal Tippet.
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| 885.2 | Zwilich, Barber, Hanson, Harbison | BAVIKI::GOOD | Michael Good | Wed Sep 02 1987 12:33 | 14 |
| There's an orchestral CD by Ellen Taafe Zwilich which I own - it has
her Symphony No. 1 and two shorter orchestral works. It's good music,
good performances, but skimpy in time (about 40 minutes). It's on New
World.
There's a Hanson/Barber CD by Slatkin and St. Louis out - I think it's
the Barber Violin Concerto and Hanson's Symphony No. 2. I haven't
heard it but Fanfare gave the Barber a rave review. Since I like both
composers I'll probably pick that one up.
There are also a couple of CD's of music by John Harbison, one includes
Ulysses Bow and the other includes the orchestral version of Mirabai
Songs. I haven't heard these other but they're also on my list,
especially the Ulysses CD.
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| 885.3 | exit | KYOA::MIANO | John M. Miano - NJO | Thu Sep 03 1987 10:59 | 23 |
| I have the Hanson Sym #2 / Barber Violin Cto. The Barber is excelent,
the Hanson is so-so. It's unfortunate that such a beautiful piece
does not have a worthy performance on CD. The disk is still worth
getting because of the Barber and because even a lackluster version
of the HAnson is better than nothing. There is a lot of good music by
Samual Barber out there.
Shostakovich Symphony #5 is very popular. I have the Maazel/Cleveland
version on Telarc which is very good. For some lighter stuff
try his Festive Overture. I know of one version by Morton Gould
and the London Symphony.
I am rather fond of the Hindemith Concert Music for Brass and Strings.
There is a recording of this with Ormandy/Phil./Angel.
On the backward looking side try the Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
and Fourth Piano Concerto. The Ashkenazy versions on London are
good. Also try Scriabin, The Poem of Fire is not yet available
yet but The Poem of Ecstasy has been done with Abbado/Boston/DG,
the Divine Poem is available with Kondrashin/Concertgebouw/Et Cetera.
-John
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| 885.4 | suggestions on modern Russian composers | GUNSTK::MGINGRAS | | Fri Sep 18 1987 00:12 | 29 |
| The modern composers I'm most familiar with are some of the
Russians. I'm a big fan of Shostakovich (with 9 of his 15
symphonies and his cello concertos on cd) and also Prokofiev.
Both of them wrote romantic music, but because of Shostakovich's
clashes with Stalin's bourgeois taste, his music is angrier,
more emotional, and harder edged. His themes are beautiful, but
he is often dismissed by critics as being bombastic. Note .3 is
right about Symphony #5. It is his most popular. I have Bernstein's
version on CBS. Rostropovich (a close friend of Shostakovich) also
has a seering version on CD with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Also recommended by Shostakovich is his Symphony No.11 performed
by
the Houston Symphony Orchestra & L.Stokowski on EMI/ANGEL.
Another lesser known composer named Alfred Schnittke is starting
to be played and recorded outside the USSR. I heard his Concerto
for piano and string orchestra at Tanglewood this summer and it
definitely left an impression. Be prepared for angry music, though.
I have seen some Schnittke on the Chandos label (as well as
Shostakovich piano concertos, piano played by his grandson, Dmitri,
and conducted by his son, Maxim). I also have a couple Aram
Khachaturian discs, information on which I can give you if you want.
I hope these suggestions are along the lines of what you are
looking for.
Marty
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