Browse: American Classics (series)
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Jennifer Higdon: All Things Majestic
RecommendedRoberto Díaz (viola), James Button (oboe)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
[All Things Majestic] The piece conveys a marvellous sense of wonder in the vastness and minutiae of the natural world, from the soaring brass chorales of 'Teton Ridge' to the raindrop delicacy... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Some discs are recommendable just because they present appealing, well-played programs in good sound at a great price. In such cases, comparisons are not the issue; we can enjoy them as a concert... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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American Classics - Amy Beach
RecommendedAlan Feinberg (piano)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn
Composed in 1898-9, Amy Beach's ambitious, singularly impressive Piano Concerto is at long last coming in from the cold. An expansively rhetorical Allegro moderato launches the work before a... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The performances are predictably excellent. In No. 1, the imposing first movement is presented with fervour, and the Copland-like central scherzo with lightness and precision; Jennifer Johnson... — More…
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Record Review, 14th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Symphonic Recording (20th/21st-century music)
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Bernstein: Mass
RecommendedJubilant Sykes (baritone)
Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus, Morgan State University Marching Band & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…is a virtual triumph from beginning to end, and the only recording for me worthy of sitting next to the composer's own. …Alsop's tight-knit, symphonic pacing delineates the structure of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Editor's Choice
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American Classics - Walter Piston
RecommendedTherese Elder Wunrow (harp)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Those unfamiliar with Piston's work should investigate this Naxos disc that repackages performances originally issued on Delos. This one is arguably the best of the lot as it features the Fourth... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets
RecommendedMalmö Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus, James Sinclair
James Sinclair leads excellent performances. The Malmo Symphony sounds comfortable in the American idiom, and the recording is spacious, sweet sounding in the strings…You should have the Naxos... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle (Live)
RecommendedZuill Bailey (cello) & Paul Jacobs (organ)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Strikingly impressive performances of wittily crafted and accessible contemporary large-scale orchestral scores. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Kenneth Fuchs: Piano Concerto 'Spiritualist', Poems of Life, Glacier, Rush
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
The song-cycle Poems of Life (2017) is in the heart of this well-played, sumptuously scored programme…It is a beautifully conceived cycle…Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen sang the premiere in Virginia and... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Compendium
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The E minor No. 1 starts on the same ground as Dvořák’s New World, but soon charts different terrain…all played with rhythmic élan, beguiling colour and evident joy. If not every corner is neat,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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