American Classics
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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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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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Under Marin Alsop's sensitive guidance, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has found the heartbeat of this music. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2006, Budget Choice
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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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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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Michael Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony
RecommendedMary Kathryn Van Osdale (violin), Erik Gratton (flute) & Ann Richards (flute/piccolo), Terrence Wilson (piano)
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
This disc… also draws attention to a name new to me: Giancarlo Guerrero. Watch out for more from him — More…
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Orchestral Performance
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American Classics - Piston: Violin concertos
RecommendedJames Buswell (violin)
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, Theodore Kuchar
Piston's First Violin Concerto, written in 1939, has much in common with the Barber, including a similar abundance of individual melody. The heart of the work is in the moving, pensive central... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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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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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