Choral The Dead in the Square: Allan Pettersson's Twelfth Symphony If you like Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Orff Carmina Burana, the Nordic symphonists in general or Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony, 'Babi Yar,' and perhaps even Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, you'll most likely love this
20th Century Sing like a Nightingale: Vagn Holmboe and the string quartet The virtuosity demonstrated by the Nightingale Quartet is astonishing. Recommended.
Americana My Father Knew Charles Ives: The Music of John Adams Those champions of new American music, the Nashville Symphony and Giancarlo Guerrero, turn their attention to the music of John Adams (born 1947; not to be confused with the composer John Luther Adams). Regular readers of Classical Explorer might wish to see this post as a logical extension of our
Orchestral More than an Iron Foundry: the music of Alexander Mosolov If you were expecting gritty dissonances with this disc, you'll be disappointed: it is full of fascination and, yes, joy
Strings Plaisirs illuminés: Camerata Bern delivers a sensational programme Fans of the music of Bartók who wonder what to listen to next need look no further than fellow Hungarian Sándor Veress' Musica concertante per 12 archi (Concertante music for twelve strings). Veress (1907-1992) was a student of both Bartók and Kodály; he taught the major Hungarian composers Ligeti
