classical music: John Harbison

classical music: John Harbison

classical music:

John Harbison

Barber: Summer Music; Beach: Pastorale

Samuel Barber, Amy Beach, ...

Chandos, 1994

Tom Arvidson
I heard Gunther Schuller's "Blues" while listening to NPR in transit from one assignment to the next at my job. I immediately knew I had to buy this CD! The colors and resonances, to say nothing of the true Jazz feeling came across like I've never heard in a classical ...

The American Brass Band Journal

George Bicknell, Henri Cramatte, ...

Sony, 2005

The Early Brass Band in America
A fine CD reconstruction of 1850s and 1860s band music in America. Actually a combination of two older LPs that were collected onto one disc it is great to see these recordings back in print again. The linear notes are complete and pretty extensive. The selection of ...

Songs America Loves To Sing - Old and New Music for Winds, Strings and Piano
Kenji Bunch, Norman Dello Joio, ...

MSR Classics, 2007

We are pleased to offer this recording which, much like a typical Atlanta Chamber Players concert, celebrates diverse style periods and a variety of instrumental combinations. Featured is the debut recording of John Harbison s "Songs America Loves to Sing", which we co-commissioned and premiered in 2004. These ten "songs" alternately showcase ...

The 20th-Century Cello

Matt Haimovitz, Luciano Berio, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Great playing, great listening
This set has wonderful qualities on quite a few levels. What you have here are clear modern renditions of pieces by some of the best known composing names of the last century, recorded in modern sound by one of my personal favorite cellists around today. Haimovitz ...

Harbison: Oboe Concerto, Symphony No2; Sessions: Symphony No2
John Harbison, Roger Sessions, ...

London/Decca, 1994

John Harbison (b. 1938) and Roger Sessions (1896-1985) are two of America's least-appreciated composers. Their strengths come from their mixture of Modernistic effects with a solid Romantic lyicism at their base. Both Harbison's Oboe Concerto and Symphony 2 show this. Intellectually, the Symphony is more appealing; it appears more richly textured ...

Contemporary American Piano Trios of Andrew Imbrie / Seymour Shifrin / John Harbison / Mel Powell
Andrew Imbrie, Seymour Shifrin, ...

Music & Arts, 2006

Chamber Music

Brant Taylor, John Harbison, ...

Naxos American, 2006

Harbison's Hypnotic Chamber Music
Because it is sung magically by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson who died only a few months ago, the most welcome work on this CD, for sentimental reasons, is 'North and South'(1999), a cycle of six songs set to poems of Elizabeth Bishop. Two of them are the 'Ballads for ...

Knoxville Summer of 1915

Samuel Barber, John Harbison, ...

Nonesuch, 1990

The Barber alone is worth five stars
People are always saying that they find a particular piece of music is "haunting." For me Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" is such a work. Dawn Upshaw's reading of this great American masterwork is the best I have yet heard. She won her first Grammy Award for ...

Harbison: Three City Blocks, Music for 18 Winds / Colgrass
John Harbison, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, ...

Centaur, 1996

John Harbison: Ulysses

John Harbison, Gil Rose, ...

BMOP/sound, 2008

John Harbison's Ulysses CD review
John Harbison's "Ulysses" has been a long delayed release, but, anxiously awaited, it was composed in 1983 and is also the inaugural release from the new music recording label BMOP Sound. Indeed it is a wonderful first CD by the new label. Thematically well thought ...

John Harbison: Four Songs of Solitude; Variations; Twilight Music

Lars Wouters van den Oudenwijer, John Harbison, ...

Naxos American, 2003

good although not particularly adventurous
harbison has gotten much attention in recent years, especially because of his opera adaptation of the great gatsby. the pieces on this CD date back to the 80's. they don't sound much more adventurous than, say, bartok or britten, but they're enjoyable overall. the ...

Wind Dances

John Harbison, Paul Hart, ...

Klavier, 1997

Goose-bump Music
I have had the chance to listen to this great CD, especially complimenting on Sparke's Dance Movements, perhaps an off-shoot of Bernstein's Overture to Candide, as magnificent piece of music. The North Texas Wind Ensemble is superior in its ablitiy to play. When I was ...

John Harbison: Mottetti di Montale

John Harbison, Collage New Music, ...

Koch Int'l Classics, 2005

A great song cycle
I am amazed that no one had reviewed this recording here. It is certainly one of the most beautiful and moving works I have heard recently. Harbison has been writing fine songs for a number of years; his early "Five Songs of Experience," from 1971, setting poems of ...

First Edition Music: World Premier Collection
Lynn Harrell, John Corigliano, ...

First Edition, 2005

New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble

John Harbison, Karel Husa, ...

Albany Records, 1999

Add this to your collection!
A must for any wind ensemble collection. Battisti's interpretation of these challenging pieces captures every subtle nuance, every emotion. The Husa is indeed breathtaking, one of the finest recordings of any Husa composition. This is a great collection of ...