Review for GHCD 2361 - Stokowski NBC Pops
The ever-versatile colorist Leopold Stokowski here finds representation “in the lighter vein” (to paraphrase one of his RCA Victor LPs), 1941-1944, as he leads the NBC Symphony in ethnic and dance pieces popular to audiences of wartime America. The range of composers themselves proves rather eclectic, opening with a work by NBC violist Carlton Cooley, his recollection the southern coast of England, his Promenade (24 March 1942), which calls...
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Review of GMCD 7345 - Paraphrases Brillantes
Nowadays if you miss live performances of a new opera from an established composer there is a good chance that it will be available as a recording, possibly even as a DVD. In the nineteenth century if you missed one or wanted to repeat the experience the alternative was through transcriptions. These could range...
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Review of GMCD 7341 - Music by Fribbins
Well established as a lecturer and administrator, notably at Middlesex University (where he organized an important seminar on the music of Zemlinsky, the proceedings from which were reviewed in May 2008), Peter Fribbins (b.1969) also has a growing output to his name. This first disc ...
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Dr. Arthur Wills was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990, and also held a Professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until ...
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