A review from by Harry Rolnick on DOHNANYI, E.: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2

Living in Budapest some years ago, I thought it was virtually a rule that radio stations and concert halls were required to play Bartók, Liszt, Kodály or sometimes even Ligeti and Kurtag…

… Listen to the two incredibly beautiful concertos on this record, and you won’t recognize even an iota of music from Hungary…

… The recording by Naxos is well focused, and the program notes by Keith Anderson—Naxos’ very first annotator—are, as always, informative and detailed…

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An introduction to three world premiere recordings of pieces by Alan Hovhaness - Fanfare for the New Atlantis, Guitar Concerto No. 2 and his Symphony No. 63.

All these pieces show the lush sounds and soaring melodies that have drawn many people to his music - and baffled other composers in an age when lush melodic writing was not the norm.

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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.559336

Raymond Bisha interviews Maestro Jose Serebrier about his Grammy nominated CD Shostakovich: The Golden Age.

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