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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons/Fritz Kreisler: Concerto for Violin
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The Departed (Score)
from: New Line Records
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A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives
from: Polygram Records
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White Moon: Songs to Morpheus
from: Nonesuch
: :Dawn Upshaw graces us with a template of nocturnal delights. The various musical styles range from Monteverdi to Crumb, keeping the listener from ever getting too comfortable. Her interprations of Warlock's haunting 'Sleep' and Schwartner's 'Black Anemones' are well- crafted and bewitching, but her usually-stellar musical sense is misguided in a disappointing 'Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5' by Villa- Lobos. She sings youthfully and without vocal abandon, and the middle section is void of passion. Her lovely light voice sometimes treads dangerously on girlishness; it's most satisfying when exhibiting its full meaty radiance. Upshaw's ...
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Hubert Laws Plays Bach for Barone & Baker
from: Denon Records
: :Dawn Upshaw graces us with a template of nocturnal delights. The various musical styles range from Monteverdi to Crumb, keeping the listener from ever getting too comfortable. Her interprations of Warlock's haunting 'Sleep' and Schwartner's 'Black Anemones' are well- crafted and bewitching, but her usually-stellar musical sense is misguided in a disappointing 'Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5' by Villa- Lobos. She sings youthfully and without vocal abandon, and the middle section is void of passion. Her lovely light voice sometimes treads dangerously on girlishness; it's most satisfying when exhibiting its full meaty radiance. Upshaw's ...
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Johannes Brahms (NY Philomusica)
from: NY Philomusica Records
: :Near the other end of his life span, and after announcing his retirement, Brahms was inspired to compose the Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello and piano by a clarinetist he encountered in the city of Meiningen named Richard Mühlfeld. Brahms considered Mühlfeld the finest wind player he had heard - his 'dear nightingale'. The Trio is a work of introspection to be sure. There are no more heights to be conquered here. Rather the view is one of satisfied contemplation of the beauty wrought in his 'nightingale's' song. With the ...
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Beethoven: Quintet in E flat, Op. 16; Septet in E flat, Op. 20
from: NY Philomusica
:Album Description:The quintet is for the same instrumentation employed to such great effect by Beethoven's predecessor, Mozart. Meg Bachman Vas makes her recording debut with New York Philomusica Records in an ebullient and poetic account of the work, lovingly supported and enveloped by her woodwind collaborators. Todd Phillips fully realizes the extraordinary violin part of the piece which was Beethoven's most popular during his lifetime. Needless to say, Vas' and Phillips' collaborators do them justice. One cannot tire of hearing such beautifully proportioned music in all its variety of melody, form and modulation, ...
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Mozart Bicentennial Program
:Album Description:The program takes the listener across a very wide spectrum of Mozart's genius for sound and for instrumental variety. It opens with his next to last string quintet in the rarely used (by him) key of G minor. It is followed by the seldom performed Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, written to memorialize two esteemed brothers of his lodge. The last piece is the first recorded instance of the renowned Robert Levin performing a Mozart Concerto on the modern grand piano, in the Concerto No. 17 in G major.
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons/Fritz Kreisler: Concerto for Violin
from: Polygram Records
:Album Description:The program takes the listener across a very wide spectrum of Mozart's genius for sound and for instrumental variety. It opens with his next to last string quintet in the rarely used (by him) key of G minor. It is followed by the seldom performed Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, written to memorialize two esteemed brothers of his lodge. The last piece is the first recorded instance of the renowned Robert Levin performing a Mozart Concerto on the modern grand piano, in the Concerto No. 17 in G major.
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All Beethoven Program
:Album Description:The program takes the listener across a very wide spectrum of Mozart's genius for sound and for instrumental variety. It opens with his next to last string quintet in the rarely used (by him) key of G minor. It is followed by the seldom performed Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, written to memorialize two esteemed brothers of his lodge. The last piece is the first recorded instance of the renowned Robert Levin performing a Mozart Concerto on the modern grand piano, in the Concerto No. 17 in G major.
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