Toccata Classics
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Hans Winterberg: Chamber Music, Volume One
Brian Luce (flute), Sara Fraker (oboe), Jackie Glazier (clarinet), William Dietz (bassoon), Rex Woods (harpsichord, piano), Tannis Gibson (piano), Theodore Buchholz (cello), Alexander Tentser (piano), Arizona Wind Quintet
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This disc is a gem. The musical language, very much his own, shares familial characteristics with Fauré and Robert Schumann...Adalberto Maria Riva is a stylish, sensitive advocate and an ideal... —
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Richard Moriarty Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women; We That Wait
Sofia Soloviy (soprano), Antonina Lisohorska (soprano), Vladislav Tlushch (baritone), Ukrainian Festival Orchestra, Ukrainian Festival Choir, Theodore Kuchar
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While a lot of this program is insubstantial or incomplete, it’s played sympathetically by Leonard Lehrman, who specialises in the composer’s work. —
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Wnukowski strikes me as an ideal advocate for this music. He is more than equal to its technical demands, and he brings subtle gradations of dynamics and shading to what could easily become... —
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Hermann Grädener: Orchestral Music, Volume One
Karen Bentley Pollick (violin)
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Gottfried Rabl
The orchestral material is sweeping and finely orchestrated, its counter-themes strong...With booklet notes and production standards flying high, you can judge for yourself which concerto you... —
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This music conjures the vastness and rugged beauty of Siberia (or so my imagination leads me to believe), with its big-boned construction and soaring lyricism. His style dovetails neatly into... —
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Emil Tabakov: Complete Symphonies, Volume Four
Symphony Orchestra of Bulgarian National Radio, Emil Tabakov
Tabakov’s Fifth stands in the same lineage as the epic-scale symphonies of the Soviet era: Shostakovich’s Fourth and Seventh, Khachaturian’s Second, Schnittke’s First. Besides scope, Tabakov’s... —
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Part of the ‘Indianists’ movement, Arthur Farwell tried to meld American Indian and Western music. There’s a variety of styles, though the playing sometimes loses focus. —
