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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' / Symphonies 2 & 5 / Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis / The Lark Ascending
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»rank: 29713
from: Telarc
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Schuman: Symphony No8; Symphony No3
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»rank: 159208
from: Sony
Editorial Product Review: :Schuman's music belongs to the era that spawned Roy Harris (his teacher), Howard Hanson, and Aaron Copland. Schuman's Symphony No. 3 is a clear homage to Harris, broken rhythms and all. The Symphony for Strings (1943) comes at a time when Schuman's voice is finally his own. What could come off as exceedingly dry is here given a performance of great depth by Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Schuman's Symphony No. 8 (1962) is truly modern, making extensive use of atonality and creating a series of stormy images--something that never appears ...
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Bax: Symphony No. 2; November Woods
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»rank: 102650
from: Naxos
Editorial Product Review: :Schuman's music belongs to the era that spawned Roy Harris (his teacher), Howard Hanson, and Aaron Copland. Schuman's Symphony No. 3 is a clear homage to Harris, broken rhythms and all. The Symphony for Strings (1943) comes at a time when Schuman's voice is finally his own. What could come off as exceedingly dry is here given a performance of great depth by Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Schuman's Symphony No. 8 (1962) is truly modern, making extensive use of atonality and creating a series of stormy images--something that never appears ...
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John Corigliano: Symphony No. 2 & The Mannheim Rocket
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»rank: 157767
from: Ondine
Editorial Product Review: :Schuman's music belongs to the era that spawned Roy Harris (his teacher), Howard Hanson, and Aaron Copland. Schuman's Symphony No. 3 is a clear homage to Harris, broken rhythms and all. The Symphony for Strings (1943) comes at a time when Schuman's voice is finally his own. What could come off as exceedingly dry is here given a performance of great depth by Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Schuman's Symphony No. 8 (1962) is truly modern, making extensive use of atonality and creating a series of stormy images--something that never appears ...
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Dutilleux: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
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»rank: 46763
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Hans Graf enjoys Dutilleux’s confidence, and from this recording it’s easy to see why. The detail is all here, but so is the control of long paragraphs – few recordings of the slow movement of the First Symphony have moved me as much as this one…the work is undoubtedly a masterpiece and the final resolution on to D flat major one of the great moments of 20th-century music.' - GRAMOPHONE The Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra has existed under several different names since it’s founding in the city of Bordeaux in 1850. ...
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Monumental Works for Winds
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»rank: 70577
from: Naxos
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Hans Graf enjoys Dutilleux’s confidence, and from this recording it’s easy to see why. The detail is all here, but so is the control of long paragraphs – few recordings of the slow movement of the First Symphony have moved me as much as this one…the work is undoubtedly a masterpiece and the final resolution on to D flat major one of the great moments of 20th-century music.' - GRAMOPHONE The Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra has existed under several different names since it’s founding in the city of Bordeaux in 1850. ...
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Copland: Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid; Rodeo
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»rank: 29667
from: EMI Classics
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Specially priced 2-CD set in space-saving brilliant box with accompanying three-language booklet. Digitally remastered to the highest standards at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios.
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Karajan Forever: The Greatest Classical Hits
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»rank: 100760
from: Deutsche Grammophon
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Specially priced 2-CD set in space-saving brilliant box with accompanying three-language booklet. Digitally remastered to the highest standards at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios.
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Weinberg: Symphonies, Vol. 1
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»rank: 124046
from: Chandos
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Specially priced 2-CD set in space-saving brilliant box with accompanying three-language booklet. Digitally remastered to the highest standards at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios.
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William Bolcom: Symphony No. 4; Session 1
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»rank: 134372
from: New World Records
Editorial Product Review: :The music of William Bolcom (b. 1928) is characterized by his staunch refusal to obey any rules. He's a cross between Frank Zappa and Edgar Varese. Session 1 (1965) is a loose free-for-all that has at its core a strict 12-tone base. It sounds like several instrumentalists tuning their instruments and percussionists beating away at their drums. It's almost entirely a work of abstract 'colors.' Symphony 4 (1987) has some elements of serialism, but Bolcom mixes into it a subtle tonality, particularly in the second movement which centers around the poem 'The ...
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