classical music: Roger Sessions     classical music:     Roger Sessions      Total Classics Francois Rive, Julian Lloyd Webber, ... Decca, 2005 Wonderful sounds Nice eclectic collection - Russel Watson presentation of Nella Fantasia using guitar interlude instead of traditional oboe is special piece.             Hanson Conducts McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan; Sessions: The Black Maskers; Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune, The ... David Clatworthy, Colin McPhee, ... Mercury Living Presence / Polygram Records, 1992 American Gamelan Music from 1936! This will not be a review of the CD, since it is unavailable. I do want to pass on, however, my enthusiasm for Tabuh-Tabuhan. WGBH radio played it this morning (May 29, 2001) and I was mesmerized. An American composition from 1936 from Colin McPhee -- but it sounded ...             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 ...             Childhood Memories: Music for Younger Pianists Sahan Arzruni New World Records, 2002 A JOYOUS EXPERIENCE I AM TOTALLY ENCHANTED BY THIS RECENT CD "CHILDHOOD MEMORIES" OF SAHAN ARZRUNI. EACH SHORT PIECE AND THOUGHT CREATES AN EXTRAORDINARY WHOLE. I AM BEGUILED BY THE RENDITIONS OF AMY BEACH, A DELIGHTFUL BEGINNING WITH HER VIVID "CARNIVAL". THEN CAUGHT BY THE MYSTERY OF ...             But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972 Donald Gramm, Samuel Barber, ... New World Records, 1996 Proof that American songs can be great I have had the lp issue of this album for many years and have enjoyed it more with each encounter. The songs by Duke, Bowles, Citkowitz, Chanler, and Copland are based on some familiar poems, but the songs are not, themselves, well-known. I particularly have liked ...             Songs Drones and Refrains of Death/Concertino for Chamber Orchestra Lawrence Weller, George Crumb, ... Phoenix USA, 1998 As always: fascinating Crumb, stern Sessions - a valuable reissue of an essential LP Phoenix must be thanked for doing great service to the music lover by reissuing rare and valuable contemporary music originally released on LP on labels such as Everest and Desto. I reviewed elsewhere the second and third String Quartets of Karel Husa, originally on ...             The Juilliard String Quartet Joel Krosnick, Milton Babbitt, ... Composers Recordings, 1994 An unknown masterpiece While I originally purchased this disc out of curiosity for the Babbitt, I unwittingly unearthed a gem in the Sessions quartet. This is an immensely beautiful work that ebbs and flows between spareness and density in a way that the works of Schoenberg or Bartok (of ...             Sessions and Shapey: Piano Music Roger Sessions, Ralph Shapey, ... Bridge, 2007 modernity at variegated poles it is pointless to hear the two 'Mutations' here consecutively, although 'Mutations I' is a first affirmation of a young creator with some vision. The work dates from 1956,premiered then in New York City; Shapey was drawn quite early to the paradigm of modernity; in ...             Summer Pino Paladino, Yolanda Bould, ... Sony, 2003 Absolutely wonderful I first came upon this CD when I was Music Director of a public radio station and I couldn't wait to get it on the air. The response from the audience (@ 53,000) was warm and grateful. This gal not only has a beautiful voice, but also the training to use that voice ...             Peter Wispelwey Styles Pieter Wispelwey, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Channel Classics Nl, 1996             Roger Sessions: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd Dominic Cossa, Roger Sessions, ... New World Records, 1992             Symphony 8 / Concerto for Orchestra Panufnik, Sessions, ... Hyperion UK, 2002 Two appealing late 20th-century works This disc couples two of the commissions made to honour the centennial year of the Boston Symphon Orchestra in 1981. While this set of commissions (which also included Bernstein's Divertimento for Orchestra and Corigliano's Promenade Overture) might not have the ...             Sessions; Mennin; Blackwood Easley Blackwood, Peter Mennin, ... CP2 Recordings, 2004             Roger Sessions: String Quartet Roger Sessions, Joshua Gordon, ... Naxos American, 2006 Well-crafted music, if perhaps a little dry This disc, one of a number of recordings featuring the Group for Contemporary Music that have been reissued on Naxos American Classics after having previously being available on Koch, marks the first appearance of the music of Roger Sessions at Naxos price. Sessions, ...             Peter Wispelwey: Hindemith, Sessions, Ligeti... Pieter Wispelwey, Paul Hindemith, ... Channel Classics Nl, 1995          products you might be interested in   search for classical music 1927-1972, 20th-century, childhood, concertino, tabuh-tabuhan, today-the      toavi.com    web we recommend American Gamelan Music from 1936! randomly chosen book: Lobster Chronicles, The: Life On a Very Small Island