Archive for Classical-Modern Music Review
Classical-Modern Music Heartily Recommends Utah Symphony’s Mahler 8
“As much as I’ve appreciated Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 over time, I have connected only tangentially to it on a personal level. Until now. Thierry Fischer directs the Utah Symphony and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a brand new recording. … Fischer and the Utah contingent meet the challenges and bring us a single-hearted reading that perhaps is less Wagnerian (a problem with some readings) than Mahlerian, less strictly giganticistic and more focused than some.…
Is Adam Schoenberg the American Sibelius?
Order Now Classical-Modern Music Review‘s Grego Applegate Edwards asks, “Is Adam Schoenberg the American Sibelius?” in a new review for the Kansas City Symphony‘s latest recording: “Is Adam Schoenberg the American Sibelius? Maybe. I haven’t heard such ravishingly beautiful, unabashed orchestral lyricism since the Finnish master put notes to paper. That is, on Adam’s new album of works American Symphony – Finding Rothko – Picture Studies. The Kansas City Orchestra under Michael Stern gives us…