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Armenian-American composer (1911-2000)
- piano, sitar, veena
- opera, symphony
- United States of America
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2023-08-17 03:30:00
Hovhaness: Mountain Fantasies for Piano (CD Review)
by Karl NehringBlue Job Mountain Sonata; Prospect Hill Sonata; Mt. Katahdain Sonata; Pastoral No. 1; Hymn for Mt. Chocorua; 12 Armenian Folk Songs; Farewell to the Mountains. Haskell Small, piano. MSR Classics MS 1796Although Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) may not be widely regarded by music fans as one of the great American composers, his music stands as some of the breathtakingly beautiful music to have been composed by an American in the twentieth century, and deserves to be more widely performed and appreciated. Gerard Schwarz led the Seattle Symphony in a number of fine recordings of his orchestral music for the Delos label that were later rereleased by Naxos. The majority of these were recorded by legendary engineer John Eargle in demonstration-quality sound. Schwarz later recorded some Hovhaness for the Telarc label, on a disc that our John Puccio reviewed here, and there is a famous recording by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of that same Mysterious Mountain Symphonythat John […]
2022-08-31 06:00:29
Hovhaness’ “Mysterious Mountain” (Symphony No. 2): Ode to the Eternal
Alan Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain, is the music of vast, majestic, metaphorical summits. Unfolding as an arc, its three movements do not take a linear, goal-oriented journey. Instead, they add up to a reverent and awe-inspiring celebration of the eternal. According to Hovhaness, the Symphony’s title does not refer to a specific mountain, but to “the whole idea of mountains.” He wrote, Mountains are symbols, like pyramids, of man’s attempt to know ...
2022-07-14 04:00:00
Johnson: 'Victory Stride' The Symphonic Music
James P Johnson (1894-1955)Victory StrideHarlem SymphonyConcerto Jazz A MineAmerican Symphonic Suite - LamentDrums - A Symphonic PoemCharlestonConcordia Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor)Leslie Stifelman (piano)DDD 2003 Music Masters (Flac Files and CD Covers)"James P. Johnson was a notable black musician in the 1920s. He is best known in jazz circles as Father of Stride Piano and as favoured accompanist of Bessie Smith. His students included Fats Waller and Duke Ellington. He scored musical revues during the 1920s. There are two symphonies, a piano concerto and a clarinet concerto, two ballets, two one-act operas and a number of sonatas, suites, tone poems and a string quartet. The Victory Stride is a brief jazzy eruption with solos for trumpet, clarinet, trombone and piano. The prominent trumpet line is taken by Chris Gekker - he of some pretty gloriously dazed Hovhaness recordings for Koch. The four movement Harlem Symphony is more of a suite really: four movements of […]
2022-06-11 10:48:36
Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No.2 Context Also known by its original title Mysterious Mountains, Alan Hovhaness’ Second Symphony remains his most-recorded work to date. The three-movement work was composed in 1955 and was premiered by Leopold Stokowski and the Houston Symphony Orchestra in the same year. The original title does not […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
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