• Home
  • Shop/Explore
    • Full Catalog
    • Reference Recordings Catalog
    • FRESH! From RR Catalog
    • Buried Treasures — Limited Edition LPs
    • On Sale
    • Artists
    • Composers
    • Formats
      • HDCDs
      • HRx
      • Reference Mastercuts LPs
      • SACDs
      • Downloads
    • Genres
      • Classical
      • Blues
      • Jazz
      • Vocal
      • Samplers
      • Other
    • Gift Certificate
    • My Account
    • Cart
    • Store FAQs
    • Privacy Policy
  • About
    • Our History
    • Reference Recordings Team
      • Team Overview
      • John Tamblyn Henderson Jr.
      • “Prof” Keith O. Johnson
    • RR Awards and Nominations
  • News and Reviews
  • Audiophile Corner
  • Press Room
  • Distributors
  • Contact
  • Close Menu
Menu

The Arts Fuse Wants a Sequel to One Movement Symphonies

Posted by Reference Recordings on
 July 27, 2021

Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony’s new One Movement Symphonies album left The Arts Fuse’s Jonathan Blumhofer asking for a sequel, or even a whole series:

  • One Movement Symphonies
    Select options

“Michael Stern’s new recording with the Kansas City Symphony (KCS) celebrates a subgenre one probably doesn’t think about all that much: the single-movement symphony. Given the rewards of this album, which showcases symphonic works by Samuel Barber, Jean Sibelius, and Alexander Scriabin, perhaps one should. … Stern and his forces clearly have internalized this wonderful music. …the KSC’s playing is nimble and spry. … a potent, cathartic exhalation. … Stern and the KSC never get lost in the music’s thickets. Indeed, the orchestra’s attention to the score’s dynamics and articulations is superb. One hears, as a result, all sorts of little details, from echoes of melodic lines across the ensemble to heterophonic gestures and nuances of scoring (Sibelius’s widely-spaced clarinet writing, for instance, comes across magnificently). Taken together with Stern’s rhythmically tight, texturally clear, bracingly unfussy approach to the larger piece, and this is one dynamic Sibelius Seven. … The KSC’s performance blends delicacy and bombast with equal vigor. … Reference Recording’s sonics are, by and large, warm and natural. Indeed, this is a disc that begs for a sequel (or a whole series)… The possibilities would be, if not endless, at least riveting.”

—Jonathan Blumhofer, The Arts Fuse

See the full review on ArtsFuse.org

Listen:

Categories : Featured, Review, Top
Tags : ArtsFuse, Jonathan Blumhofer, Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern, Review
← Next Post
Previous Post →
GDPR Consent(Required)
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Connect:
800-336-8866
650-355-1949
1-650-355-1845
PO Box 627 Pacifica, CA 94044
Reference Recordings® © 2025 All Rights Reserved
  • Home
  • Store
  • News
  • About
  • Contact