The Momenta Quartet, an ensemble in residence at Temple University in Philadelphia, specializes in music written by living composers. They have also received great acclaim for performances they have given of music written by composers of past generations and centuries. This beautifully...
Music from America & Abroad for Oboe, Bassoon...
This recording of 20th-century music from Italy, the British Isles, Canada, and Germany uses oboe, bassoon, and piano in various combinations. Everything is tonal, lyrical, imaginative, and truly beautiful. After spending many years holding principal positions in orchestras in the United...
Virgil Thomson: The Mother of Us All / The Manhatt...
Virgil Thomson was a great force behind American music in the 20th Century. Not only was he a great composer, but an outspoken and intelligent voice for music. The Mother of Us All was the second opera he composed. The first, Four Saints in Three Acts, used an all Afro-American cast. The...
David Wolfson: Seventeen Windows; Cello Sonata / J...
Composer David Wolfson studied composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music and has lived in New York City since 1986 working as a conductor, arranger, pianist and music director for a wide variety of projects, especially related to the theatre. This first CD of his music from Albany...
Remembranza - Piano pieces by Piazzolla, Vil...
Pianist Rosa Antonelli takes us on a musical tour of South America and Spain with this collection of beguiling pieces for solo piano titled Remembranza, remembrance of Latin sounds. The melancholy romantic music by Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazareth, Enrique Granados and...