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NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS

 

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Lori LAITMAN (b. 1955)

The seed of dream (2004)
8.559379

Review by Robert Hugill

Henri LAZAROF (b 1932)

Tableaux (after Kandinsky) for Piano and Orchestra
Violin Concerto (1985-86)
Symphony No. 2 (1990)
8.559159

Review by Jonathan Woolf

Benajmin LEES (b. 1924)

Symphony No. 4 ('Memorial Candles') (1985)
8.559002

Review by Rob Barnett and David Wright

Frank Ezra LEVY (b. 1930)

A Summer Overture (1997)
Cello Concerto No. 2 (2002)
Rondo Tarantella (2003)
Symphony No. 3 (1997)
8.559234

Review by David Blomenberg and David Dunsmore

Dan LOCKLAIR (b. 1949)

Symphony of Seasons (Symphony No.1) (2002)
Lairs of Soundings (1982)
Phoenix and Again (1982)
In Memory – H.H.L. (2005)
Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (2004)
8.559337

Reviews by Gwyn Parry-Jones and Jonathan Woolf

Charles Martin LOEFFLER (1861-1935)

Music for Four Stringed Instruments (1917)
String Quartet (1889)
Quintet in One Movement for 3 Violins, Viola and Cello (1894)
8.559077

Review by Paul Shoemaker

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

Piano Music Vol. 1
Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces
Fireside Tales, New England Idylls
8.559010

Review by Rob Barnett

Piano Music Vol. 2
First Modern Suite, In Lilting Rhythm
Six Idylls After Goethe, Piano Sonata No. 3 ('Norse')
8.559011

Review by Rob Barnett

Piano Music Vol. 3
Sonata No. 4 Keltic (1901), Forgotten Fairy Tales (1897)
Six Heine Poems (1887), Twelve Virtuoso Studies (1894)
8.559019

Review by Rob Barnett

Piano Music Vol. 4
Etude de Concert, Second Modern suite, Serenata
Two Fantasy Pieces, Twelve Etudes
8.559030

Review by Rob Barnett

Complete Songs
8.559032

Review by Rob Barnett

Piano Concerto No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 2
Hexentanz (Witches Dance)
Romance for Cello and Orchestra
8.559049

Review by John Phillips and Rob Barnett

Suite No. 1
Suite No. 2 ('Indian')
Hamlet and Ophelia
8.559075

Reviews by John Phillips and Adrian Smith

George Frederick McKAY (1899-1970)

From A Moonlit Ceremony (1945)
Harbor Narrative (1934)
Evocation Symphony "Symphony for Seattle" (1951)
8.559052

Review by Christopher Thomas

Caricature Dance Suite (1924), From My Tahoe Window - Summer Moods and Patterns, Americanistic Etude (1924), An April Suite (1924), Dance Suite No. 2 (1938), Dancing in a Dream (1945), Excerpts from Five Songs for Soprano (1964), Every Flower That Ever Grew (1969), Suite for Viola and Piano (1948)
8.559143

Reviews by Rob Barnett and Neil Horner

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1940)
Suite on Sixteenth Century Hymn Tunes (1962)
Sinfonietta No. 4 (1942)
Song Over The Great Plains (1953)
8.559225

Reviews by John Leeman, Kevin Sutton and John Phillips

Epoch (1935)
8.559330

Review by Rob Barnett

William MASON (1829-1908)

Piano Music
Silver Spring, Capriccio Fantastico, Rêverie Poétique, Improvisation, Valse-Caprice, Deux Humoresques de Bal, La Sabotière; Danse aux Sabots, Lullaby, Badinage, Caprice Grotesque, Ballade et Barcarolle, Trois Préludes, Amourette, Valse de Bravoure
8.559142

Reviews by Jonathan Woolf and Don Satz

Paul MORAVEC (b.1957)

The Time Gallery (2000) [42:15]
Protean Fantasy (1993) [9:33]
Ariel Fantasy (2002)
8.559267

Reviews by David Blomenberg, Dominy Clements and Kevin Sutton

Tempest Fantasy (2002), Mood Swings (1999)
B.A.S.S. Variations (1999), Scherzo (2002)
8.559323

Review by Dan Morgan

Jerome MOROSS (1913–1983)

Frankie and Johnny (1938)
Those Everlasting Blues (1932)
Willie the Weeper (1948)
8.559086

Review by Hubert Culot

Robert MUCZYNSKI (b. 1929)

Complete Flute Music
Wind Quintet (1985), Duos for Flutes (1973), Moments for flute and piano (1992), Fragments for woodwind trio (1958)
Three Preludes for unaccompanied flute (1962), Movements for wind quintet (1962), Duos for flute and clarinet (1984)
Flute Sonata (1961)
8.559001

Review by Rob Barnett

Leo ORNSTEIN (1892?-2002)

Piano Works
A Morning in the Woods, Danse Sauvage (Wild Men’s Dance), Piano Sonata Number 4, Impressions of the Thames, Tarantelle, Piano Sonata Number 7, A Long Remembered Sorrow, Suicide in an Airplane.
8.559104

Reviews by Kevin Sutton and Jonathan Woolf

Carter PANN (b. 1972)

Piano Concerto (1996-97)
Deux Séjours (1994)
Dance Partita (1995)
Two Portraits of Barcelona (1994)
8.559043

Reviews by Rob Barnett and Adrian Smith

Walter PISTON (1894-1976)

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1939)
Violin Concerto No. 2 (1960)
Fantasia for violin and orchestra (1970)
8.559003

Review by Rob Barnett

Quintet for Flute & String Quartet (1942)
String Sextet (1964)
Piano Quartet (1964)
Piano Quintet (1949)
8.559071

Review by Adrian Smith

Symphony No. 2 (1943)
Symphony No. 6 (1955)
8.559161

Reviews by Lance Nixon and Jonathan Woolf

Symphony No. 4 (1951)
Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra (1963)
Three New England Sketches (1959)
8.559162

Review by Neil Horner

Quincy PORTER (1987-1966)

String Quartet No.1 (1922-23)
String Quartet No.2 (1925)
String Quartet No.3 (1930)
String Quartet No.4 (1931)
8.559305

Review by John France

George ROCHBERG (b. 1918)

Symphony No. 5 (1984-85)
Black Sounds (1965)
Transcendental Variations (1975)
8.559115

Review by Neil Horner

Violin Concerto (1974, rev. 2001)
8.559129

Review by Rob Barnett

Symphony No. 2 (1955-56) [31:28]
Imago Mundi (Image of the World) for large orchestra (1973)
8.559182

Reviews by Michael Cookson, Rob Barnett and John Phillips

Symphony No. 1 (1948-49, rev. 1977, 2002-03)
8.559214

Reviews by Derek Warby and Brian Burtt

Ned ROREM (b. 1923)

Selected Songs
8.559084

Review by Jonanathan Woolf

End of Summer (1985)
Book of Hours (1975)
Bright Music (1987)
8.559128

Reviews by Hubert Culot and Rob Barnett

Symphony No. 1 (1950)
Symphony No. 2 (1956)
Symphony No. 3 (1958)
8.559149

Reviews by Rob Barnett, John Quinn, Paul Shoemaker and Kevin Sutton

Pilgrims (1958)
Flute Concerto (2002)
Violin Concerto (1985)
8.559278

Reviews by Patrick Waller, Rob Barnett and David Harbin

Piano Concerto 2 (1951)
Cello Concerto (2002)
8.559315

Reviews by Bob Briggs and John Quinn

Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1998)
After Reading Shakespeare (1981)
8.559316

Reviews by Glyn Pursglove and John Quinn

Arnold ROSNER (b. 1945)

Symphony No. 5 "Missa sine Cantoribus super Salve Regina" (1973)
8.559347

Reviews by Rob Barnett, William Kreindler and Jonathan Woolf

Frederic RZEWSKI (b. 1938)

The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975)
Four North American Ballads: No.4.
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (1979)
8.559360

Review by Dominy Clements

 

   

 

 

 

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