classical music: Henry Cowell     classical music:     Henry Cowell      Piano Dance: A 20th-Century Portrait Samuel Adler, Miguel del Aguila, ... Telarc, 2000 Fun to listen to! Listening to this CD is fun. The CD has a diverse selection of contemporary dances for solo piano, ranging from familiar favorites, such as Gollywog's Cakewalk by Debussy, to lesser known and unconventional but charming works, such as del Aguila's Conga. The ...             Henry Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music, Vol. 2 Raymond Murcell, David Krakauer, ... Naxos American, 2005 a good overview of Cowell's various compositional styles This is the reissue of volume 2 of the Cowell collection played by the New York ensemble Continuum. The piano pieces, two songs and "Set of Five" were recorded in 1984 (only in the latter can the earlier date of recording be sensed, through a less vivid sonic pickup) ...             Percussion Music Michael Colgrass, Henry Cowell, ... Nonesuch, 1992 Classic recording. They don't get any better than this. The Varese performance is marvelous and the Wuorinen Symphony is stunning.             Henry Cowell: Persian Set Mark McCormick, Ivy Chatanow, ... Koch Int'l Classics, 1994 Not What I Expected -- But Terrific Having heard Cowell's piano works, I was expecting this to be atonal, highly percussive, etc. I was completely surprised by these compositions. They are closer to Debussey than other Cowell works. I am enjoying this CD immensely. Proof that sometimes it's worth ...             First Edition Music: World Premier Collection Lynn Harrell, John Corigliano, ... First Edition, 2005             Barber: Adagio for Strings; Ives; Symphony No. 3; Copland: Quiet City Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, ... Decca, 1990 Quite Wonderful Excellent performances of American works! The Quiet City is wonderful, and I think this is a remarkably atmospheric rendition of the Adagio. The Creston Rumor is a delight, and one of his less dated works. This was good on LP, and although the CD is a little bright, ...             Henry Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music, Vol. 1 Henry Cowell, Joel Sachs, ... Naxos American, 2005 About Time It is indeed about time that we get recordings of this American Master's work. His centennial passed in 1997 with all too little fanfare and many of his works unavailable to the listening public. But leave it to the wonderful folks at NAXOS to bring such essential ...             Short Stories Elliott Sharp, Willie Dixon, ... © 1993 Elektra Entertainment, 1993 perhaps the furthest out of Kronos' recordings SHORT STORIES is an outstanding collection of new music. "Digital" by Elliot Sharp is all percussion, presumably produced with violin, viola and cello. "Spoonful," the great Willie Dixon song, is arranged for strings much like "Purple Haze" before it. "Spectre," by ...             In the Shadow of World War I Joel Krosnick, Henry Cowell, ... Arabesque Recordings, 1998 The shadow looms a bit too large - but an interesting program, although the disc's rarity, the Cowell Sonata, is disappointing There is a concept to this disc - purporting to feature works for cello and piano written "in the shadow of World War I" - but the shadow looms a little too large. Indeed Debussy's Sonata from 1915 and Hindemith's Op. 11 from 1919 can be viewed as permeated by the ...             Henry Cowell plays his own Piano Music Henry Cowell, Spoken Word Smithsonian Folkways, 1994 Crumb, Ustvolskaya? No: Cowell was there before. Piano music of stupendous imagination and invention, way ahead of its time I had read in the textbooks about "Cowell the cutting edge experimenter and innovator" from the 1910s to '30s, but this was my first encounter with his early piano music - the other compositions I had previously heard from him were mostly conservative pieces. I wish I ...             Historic Works for Percussion Ensemble Johanna Beyer, Carlos Chavez, ... Equilibrium Records, 2004 A good survey of percussion music in the wake of Varèse's seminal "Ionisation" - but timing too short and opportunity misssed Contrary to the accepted view (and the one later propagated by the composer), for all their daring avant-gardism Varèse's compositions from the early 1920s to the early 1930s met with considerable success in New York (see Chapter 2 of Carol Oja's Making Music Modern: ...             American Piano Concertos: Henry Cowell Henry Cowell, Michael Stern, ... Col Legno, 2001 Cowell's unique approach to the piano - and more: an essential addition to a Cowell collection I love the piano music of Henry Cowell, and I can't get enough of it. Not that there is much of it on CD: a collector of Cowell's piano music can easily be a completist these days. My actual discovery of Cowell's piano music is recent. I had read the name in the ...             The Composer-Performer 40th Anniversary Andre Emelianoff, Fred Sherry, ... Composers Recordings, 1994 Very interesting - especially the Walzt-Gavottte is playfull and summes of live and fun - a bit Childrens Corner here. But some of the pieces are very etniclike and can be foreign to listen to. Though - it sounds interesting.             Cowell: Quartet Romantic Frank Morelli, Madeleine Shapiro, ... New World Records, 1998 Outstanding performances For many of these pieces, this represents the only recording available. But there is much more of a reason why this album should receive accolades: the performances are stunningly good. Most of the musicians are familiar names, members of the Orpheus Chamber ...             Wizards & Wildmen Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, ... Composers Recordings, 2000 An interesting program of piano music by three American maverick innovators, in serviceable to excellent readings Anthony de Mare offers an interesting program of piano music by three American maverick innovators, linked to each other by personal and stylistic ties. The excellent liner notes give a detailed account of how Harrison became in the mid-thirties an early advocate of ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music 20th-century, anniversary, collection, composer-performer, instrumental, percussion      toavi.com    web we recommend Classic recording. randomly chosen book: National Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers, Third Edition