Orchestral, Antheil (composer)
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Music like this, often rampagingly orchestrated, needs performances of matching gusto. The symphonies’ pioneer German recordings, now almost 20 years old, had plenty of spirit, but the superior... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Storgårds treats this music with painstaking care, restoring deliberate ‘wrong notes’ expunged by earlier conductors in the Fourth, respecting all Antheil’s nuances of tempo variations, and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. George Antheil: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Symphony No. 1 'Zingareska', Suite from 'Capital of the World', McKonkey's Ferry, Nocturne in Skyrockets & The Golden Bird
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
As with the previous instalments in this ongoing retrospective, the performances are superb and vividly recorded. Again, Storgårds is generally more incisive and emotionally generous than Hugh... —
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Special offer. George Antheil 1900-1959
Frank Dupree (piano), Adrian Brendel (piano), Uram Kim (piano)
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Karl-Heinz Steffens
Dupree is an able and idiomatic soloist, and the orchestra supports him with flair, if not always with complete rhythmic precision. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner Concert Recording - (20th/21st-century music)
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…everything here is a delight. Mompou's miniatures grow under Andsnes's skilful hands, Scriabin exudes his perfume, and Smetana evokes the full-dress glory of Central European domestic pianism.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Antheil: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Markus Becker (piano)
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Eiji Oue
Some of this is hilarious 1920s music. George Antheil, the self-styled 'bad boy of music'… is in fine kleptomaniac form at a time when he idolised Stravinsky and plagiarised compulsively.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Antheil: Serenades 1 & 2; The Golden Bird; Dreams
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Fawzi Haimor
Cinematic works with swagger and sway from Antheil’s later, more tonal period; save for 1921’s The Golden Bird. The German players are on point and the recording top-notch. —
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Spalding and his Philadelphians are feisty enough in the Ballet, refined and reflective in the other works. This is a great chance to check out one of the least heard but most notorious works... —
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Special offer. Antheil the Futurist: Piano Music of George Antheil
Guy Livingston, Philippe Keler & Stephane Leach (pianos)
Written for himself to play Antheil’s piano music aspires to the condition of the player piano, an ideal weapon in his campaign for ultra-avant-garde supremacy....[Livingstone] is a kinetic... —
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Musical Landscapes for Trumpet
David Kuehn (trumpet), Persis Parshall Vehar (piano), David Kuehn (piccolo trumpet)
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