classical music: twentieth

classical music: twentieth

classical music:

Twentieth

Ian Bostridge

EMI Classics, 2002

Coward the Composer, Quite Charming without the Camp
I love this CD. I have a collection of Noel Coward performing his major songs, and I found it entertaining, but frankly I was never much drawn to it after the initial novelty wore off. I never really appreciated Coward as a composer because his campy persona and ...

Webern: Symphony; Six Pieces; Concerto for 9 Instruments

Fred Sherry, Charles Neidich, ...

Naxos, 2005

Bored with rock'n' roll music
I've been a rock'n'roll fan since my teens, but I think that this great american invention has fulled its cycle(1955 - 1985). So I turned my ears to the music made in the beggining of the 19th century, and I think that this CD is a great introduction to it. ...

Stravinsky 125th Anniversary Album

Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, ...

Naxos, 2007

Superb Stravinsky Celebration with Robert Craft on the Podium
Naxos is favoring us with a valuable still-continuing series devoted to performances of Stravinsky's works conducted by his artistic 'godson', Robert Craft, a magnificent interpreter of the composer's music. When I first saw the announcement of this issue I figured it ...

Twentieth Century Oboe Concertos

Bohuslav Martinu, Pawel Sydor, ...

Cedille, 2004

Moving Recent Oboe Works For One of Its Brilliant
Klein easily is one of the superb oboists of our time. Here he records the concertos of three modern composers, two of which were composed specifically for him in mind. The first is of Czech descent, and the oldest of the trio having been composed in 1955. What ...

Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet & Orchestra; Lied der Waldtaube; The Book of the Hanging Gardens

Arnold Schoenberg, Spoken Word, ...

Naxos, 2005

You must have this record
Robert Craft is one of the most important conductors of our time. He is a specialist in Schoenberg and Stravinsky. In the 1955 he did the first complete record of Webern' s works, and I believe that Stravinsky became a twelve tone composer influenced by his then young ...

String Quartet Tribute to the Doors
Tara Barnett, Doors, ...

Vitamin Records, 2005

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

Nat D. Ayer, Paul Barnes, ...

Naxos, 2001

The style is the man--and the song
Many composers have chosen to perform their own material and commit it to discs, with mixed results. Only with Noel Coward do we feel that a good deal of the charm of his numbers lies in the very way he performs them. For proof, we now have the Naxos Nostalgia ...

Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century (6 CDs)

W. W. Norton, 2005

Excellent
Excellent product..one of the standard anthologies available for studying Music History. One caveat, if you're using Hanning's Concise Grout as a companion text, be sure to match the correct edition of the anthology + recordings to the correct edition of the text.

Stravinsky: Later Ballets

Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, ...

Naxos, 2007

Precious Gems from the Neoclassic Stravinsky
Is there any doubt that Robert Craft is the reigning Stravinsky conductor of our time? His years of friendship with, apprenticeship to and quasi-adoption by Stravinsky certainly give him bona fides for this, but it is his impeccable musicianship that tells here. These ...

John Woods Duke: Lieder
James Taylor, Donald Sulzen, ...

Orfeo, 2002

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

Play French Impressionist Music from the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Lee Konitz, Ernest Chausson, ...

Palmetto Records, 2000

This One Belongs to a Category of Its Own
The whole CD defies my attempts of classification. I couldn't decide where to file it within my CD collection. Let's just say it is a superbly arranged and executed CD. Ohad Talmor's arrangements are full of musical innovative and interesting ideas but without ...

Twentieth Century

Carl Stern, Samuel Barber, ...

Sony, 1991

Bernstein Fan
This is a great CD to have to your collection. Not only is it [a good price], but it's performed by one of the best orchestras out there. Good sound, good selections. And anything conducted by Bernstein has to be good. It's one of my favorites

Schoenberg: Six A Cappella Mixed Choruses

Arnold Schoenberg, Robert Craft, ...

Naxos, 2005

Schoenberg the Eclectic
This, the third in Robert Craft's series of Schoenberg recordings for Naxos, includes an intriguing mix of works, mixing as it does one of the finest works of the composer's early phase with consciously retrospective tonal works from his later career. The disc ...

Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters

John Cage, Richard D. (aka Aphex Twin) James, ...

Warp Records, 2006

Classic Avant-Garde...Electronic artists collide, for this release...!!!
A strange one this....what transpires is a 2-CD disk of re-compostion's and arrangements, which are designed to: "explore the connection between electronic experimenters on the Warp label and their sonic grandfathers". What this amounts to, is a reinterpretation of ...