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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 […]