Manufacturer: Orange Mountain
Manufacturer: Albany
This latest compilation release from Deutsche Grammophon, hot on the heels of The Yellow Guide to Opera, consists of not only three CDs but also a 144-page booklet which provides biographies of 100 composers, a glossary explaining 100 musical terms and notes on each of the 42 tracks recorded on the discs. Aimed, clearly, at newcomers to classical music, the three discs cover almost five ...
Manufacturer: DG
Leave it to Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony to deliver one of the more impressive classical discs of 1999: a pairing of the violin concertos of John Adams and Philip Glass. Hearing the works of these two American music mavericks side-by-side is a study in contrasts: Adams's post-modernist composition from 1993 is filled with spooky overtones, as the violin threads its way through the ...
Manufacturer: Telarc
Manufacturer: Sony
Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music
Saxophonist Simon Haram's CD Frame exists at a point where border s between minimalism, jazz and film music fade into inconsequentiality. Principal saxophone with the London Sinfonietta, Haram studied with John Harle and is a regular soloist with the Graham Fitkin Group, Michael Nyman Band and the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition to the Duke Quartet, the arrangements are augmented by ...
Manufacturer: Black Box
Manufacturer: Helios
