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 Nantucket DreamingBest Price: $4.92 The Naxos American Classics series has introduced me to so many new voices in American music,... |  Roy Harris: Complete Piano MusicBest Price: $5.57 There was a time when Roy Harris (1898-1979) was one of the most-played American composers,... |  George Templeton StrongBest Price: $4.83 Like his friend and supporter Edward McDowell, George Templeton Strong is nominally an American... |  John Philip Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vols. 1-5 (Box Set)My review as stated separately for Volume V in this series goes for this boxed set even more... |  Dave Brubeck: SongsBest Price: $4.91 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. |
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 Bruce Wolosoff, Carpe Diem String Quartet - Songs Without Words: 18 Divertimenti for StringBest Price: $5.42 The new Naxos CD, "Songs Without Words", string quartet by Bruce Wolosoff is a... |  Sierra, Trio Arbos - Piano TriosBest Price: $4.02 |  Foote: Piano Trios 1 & 2/Melody/BalladeBest Price: $5.08 I am a senior at Arthur Foote's alma mater (Harvard) and I find that his music wonderfully... |  Takuo Yuasa - MacDowell: Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Hamlet & Ophelia / Ulster Orchestra, YuasaBest Price: $5.01 There are several reasons why this CD represents a useful addition to the catalog. First, the... |  American Classics SamplerBest Price: $0.98 The performance of Barber's "Adagio for Strings" was fantastic, and the fact that... |
 John Philip Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 2Best Price: $4.66 This CD, like the first in the series (Volume 1) provides expert performances of some of... |  Copland: Appalachian Spring, Clarinet ConcertoBest Price: $2.86 Nashville is one of those American cities, like LA, that has a deeper than expected pool of... |  Ives: Symphony No. 3Best Price: $5.44 Naxos is sometimes criticized on various counts: Obscure, royalty-free repertoire, 2nd-tier (or... |  Joseph Schwantner: Sparrows; Music of Amber; Distant Runes and Incanations; Two Poems; SoaringBest Price: $4.92 I'm a composition student at the University of North Texas, and Mr. Schwantner recently gave... |  William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of MusicBest Price: $13.49 When William Bolcom (b. 1938) was a teenager he read and was moved by William Blake's set of... |
 Theodore Kuchar - Gould: American Ballads / Foster Gallery / American SaluteBest Price: $3.88 Morton Gould (1913-1996), that Dean of Americana, avoided banality by ruthlessly breaking up... |  Christopher Mohr: From the Realm of the ShadowBest Price: $4.00 When I saw this in the store, I thought it would be another quality recording from the American... |  George Rochberg: Symphony No. 5; Black Sounds; Transcendental VariationsBest Price: $4.54 This is an outstanding CD. It consists of three orchestral works by the contemporary American... |  Stephen Hartke: Clarinet ConcertoBest Price: $3.49 Stephen Hartke is enjoying quite a réclame these days, what with an increasing number... |  Elliott Carter: Symphony No. 1; Piano ConcertoBest Price: $4.87 This CD, part of the Naxos "American Classics" series will serve as a good... |
 Michael Daugherty: Philadelphia Stories; UFOBest Price: $4.78 In its continuing exploration of American music and lesser-known U.S. orchestras, the budget... |  Marion Bauer: American Youth ConcertoBest Price: $5.08 Marion Bauer (1882-1955) was an obvious choice for exploration in Naxos's American Classics... |  Hovhaness: Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 & 53; The Prayer of St. GregoryBest Price: $5.63 The late Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000)has received considerable popular attention but too little... |  Vernon Duke: Piano Concerto; Cello Concerto; Homage to BostonBest Price: $4.75 I put off opening this CD and listening to it, because I was just snooty enough to think that it... |  Piston: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; Fantasia ConcertosBest Price: $4.45 Walter Piston's music has sometimes been dismissed as dull and overly academic - completely... |
| Theodore Kuchar - Gould: American Ballads / Foster Gallery / American Salute Best Price: $3.88 Morton Gould (1913-1996), that Dean of Americana, avoided banality by ruthlessly breaking up... | Christopher Mohr: From the Realm of the Shadow Best Price: $4.00 When I saw this in the store, I thought it would be another quality recording from the American... | George Rochberg: Symphony No. 5; Black Sounds; Transcendental Variations Best Price: $4.54 This is an outstanding CD. It consists of three orchestral works by the contemporary American... | Stephen Hartke: Clarinet Concerto Best Price: $3.49 Stephen Hartke is enjoying quite a réclame these days, what with an increasing number... | Elliott Carter: Symphony No. 1; Piano Concerto Best Price: $4.87 This CD, part of the Naxos "American Classics" series will serve as a good... |
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 William Bolcom: Music for Two PianosBest Price: $5.43 William Bolcom is one of the most innately talented composers working today. His enormous output... |  Robert Erickson: Recent Impressions; Two Songs; High Flyer; Summer MusicBest Price: $2.95 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. |  Harlem Quartet, Piston - String Quartets Nos 1 3 & 5Best Price: $5.54 as a fan of walter piston i'm always on the look out for new releases. i was more than happy... |  Elie Siegmeister: Piano MusicBest Price: $3.95 Elie Siegmeister (1909 - 1991) grew up in New York City and studied composition with Nadia... |  Gershwin: An American in Paris; Porgy & Bess Suite; Gershwin in HollywoodBest Price: $0.01 This CD contains four orchestral works by Gershwin played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra... |
 Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Piano MusicBest Price: $5.04 New Orleans-born Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) was America's first verifiable touring... |  David Diamond: Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto No. 2Best Price: $5.09 This CD is a reissue of one of the Diamond/Schwarz/Seattle series on Delos that electrified us... |  Paul Creston: Symphony No. 5; Toccatta; PartitaBest Price: $4.49 Creston was a 20th Century composer, but his music is not modern sounding. He gives preference... |  David Diamond: Symphony No. 8; Suite from the Ballet TOM; This Sacred GroundBest Price: $4.51 David Diamond (b. 1915, and still with us) has been one of American's finest composers since... |  Thomas Pasatieri: Letter to WarsawBest Price: $3.80 Thomas Pasatieri's song-cycle for soprano and orchestra, "Letter to Warsaw"... |
 Philip Glass: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3Best Price: $5.39 Along with his colleague John Adams, Philip Glass is the most familiar of the modern... |  Lukas Foss: Complete works for Solo PianoBest Price: $4.99 Lukas Foss (1922- ) was a close associate of Leonard Bernstein's over the years and their... |  Babbitt: Soli e DuettiniBest Price: $5.09 Babbitt wears a benign,gently humorous expression on his face for the front cover of the CD and... |  Roger Sessions: String QuartetBest Price: $5.08 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. |  Howard Hanson: Organ Concerto; Fantasy Variations; Nymphs and Satyr; Summer Seascape; Pastorale; SerenadeBest Price: $5.04 Classical music listeners have always loved the music of Howard Hanson, but after his halcyon... |
 Copland: Rodeo; The Red Pony; Prairie Journal; Letter from HomeBest Price: $5.40 Tucked in among the thrice-familiar 'Four Dance Episodes' from 'Rodeo' and music... |  George Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)Best Price: $5.04 The Naxos "American Classics" series continues to offer invaluable introductions to... |  Stephen Albert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2Best Price: $3.18 The Naxos label makes a special contribution with its new recording of the two symphonies by the... |  Music for Wind Band, Vol. 7Best Price: $5.43 John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) wrote a jillion marches -- well, actually only 136 -- and... |  Huang Ruo: To The Four CornersBest Price: $4.53 Huang Ruo's star is rising among contemporary composers. This is a good example of the range... |
 Jonathan Berger: Miracles and MudBest Price: $4.56 I bought this after meeting the composer by accident a few months ago. I listen to a wide... |  William Bolcom: Complete Works for CelloBest Price: $5.63 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. |  Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride and Other Holiday FavoritesBest Price: $5.08 The '50s and Leroy Anderson are traditional go-togethers and I was glad this music is... |  Lullaby of WarBest Price: $5.16 |  Chester Biscardi: In Time's Unfolding - Chamber and Instrumental MusicBest Price: $4.85 'In one way or another all of the works on this disc - spanning thirty-three years from 1972... |
 Benjamin Lees: Symphony No. 4 "Memorial Candles"Best Price: $2.00 The late Benjamin Lees (1924-2010) was one of a number of composers who rejected the twelve-tone... |  Wendy Warner - Samuel Barber: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Cello ConcertoBest Price: $4.42 Barber's cello concerto of 1945 remains one of the finest composed for the instrument of the... |  Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra - Antheil: Ballet MecaniqueBest Price: $5.00 Entertained by the weird, wacky and eclectic sounds of Frank Zappa, especially the orchestral... |  Samuel Barber: Piano Concerto; Medea's Meditation and Dance of VengeanceBest Price: $3.00 Marin Alsop and the Royal National Scottish Orchestra appear to be continuing their complete... |  Samuel Barber: Choral MusicBest Price: $4.49 Kudos to Douglas Lawrence and the Choir of Ormond College for learning and recording all the... |
 Bernstein: Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah"; Concerto for Orchestra "Jubilee Games"Best Price: $2.90 I have not had very many kind words heretofore for the ongoing Bernstein issues on the... |  Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915Best Price: $4.81 The idea of virtue, connoting an active quality of goodness, might seem oblique in connection... |  Earl Kim: Violin Concerto; Dialogues; CornetBest Price: $5.08 The music is interesting, well-played & excellently recorded. The only drawback is the... |  Dan Welcher: Haleakala: How Maui Snared the Sun; Clarinet ConcertoBest Price: $4.87 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. |  American Saxophone MusicBest Price: $4.55 When I saw this cd, I immediately bought it; my goal being to understand the Creston Sonata... |
 Charles Wuorinen: String Sextet; Piano Quintet; DivertimentoBest Price: $5.09 Many fans of 20th Century classical music will most likely have some works by Wuorinen in their... |  Jennifer Higdon: Piano Trio; Voices; ImpressionsBest Price: $6.09 Modern classical composer Michael Torke established himself with his rhythmic colored music... |  Scott Joplin: Piano Rags 2Best Price: $0.28 Scott Joplin (1868 -- 1917)was the greatest composer of the uniquely American music known as... |  Dan Locklair: Symphony of Seasons; Lairs of Soundings; Phoenix and AgainBest Price: $2.99 ... but the rest is not anything I particularly want to hear again, with the possible exception... |  Jeffrey Grossman, Sarah Darling - Leland Smith: Chamber MusicBest Price: $5.46 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. |
 Fred Hersch: Concert Music 2001-2006Best Price: $5.09 Fred Hersch (b1955) is primarily known as a jazz pianist who has played with such greats as... |  Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5Best Price: $5.09 Few people remember that America's iconic light music composer also composed for the... |  MacDowell: Piano Music, Vol. 1Best Price: $5.48 A master of the piano vignette, as these pieces aptly and beautifully illustrate, MacDowell... |  Sousa: On Wings Of LightningBest Price: $2.99 This is a nice selection of Sousa music. While I much prefer a military band to play these... |  An American Salute: Spirit of the NationBest Price: $3.47 I'm just one person but this isn't what I expected. It's good and I've listened... |
 Ornstein: Piano SonatasBest Price: $5.44 The cover of this Naxos "American Classics" CD features a painting with the... |  George Frederick McKay: Suite for Viola and Piano; From My Tahoe Window; An April Suite; Caricature Dance SuiteBest Price: $2.79 McKay was, for most of his adult life, professor of music at the University of Washington. He... |  Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4, 7 & 8Best Price: $5.43 Coates is fond of using Baroque analogies to cast her work in technical terms, and in interviews... |  John Philip Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 4Best Price: $4.53 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. |  Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan/The White Peacock/Three Poems of Fiona McLeodBest Price: $4.67 Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) was the great American what-might-have-been composer. He... |
 Art Tatum: ImprovisationsBest Price: $5.03 There is certainly no desperate need for recordings of new non-Tatum performances of Art... |  John Adams: I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the SkyBest Price: $11.64 I admire John Adams immeasurably -- I think his 'Harmonielehre,' for instance, is truly... |  Margaret Brouwer: Aurolucent Circles; Mandala; SizzleBest Price: $5.17 What a treat! Lately I've been trying to collect some recordings of music by women composers... |  Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 60; Guitar Concerto; Khrimian HairigBest Price: $5.63 The reputation of the American composer Alan Hovhaness (1911 -- 2000) continues to grow. ... |  John Philip Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 6Best Price: $0.29 This sixth volume in the ongoing series of wind band music by John Philip Sousa, conducted by... |
 Virgil Thomson: The Plow that Broke the Plains; The RiverBest Price: $5.10 Do you enjoy tuneful American music of the 20th century? If so, this disc might be one for you.... |  New Music Concerts Ensemble - Elliott Carter: 100th Anniversary Release - Mosaic, Dialogues, Enchanted Preludes, Scrivo In Vento (CD + DVD)Best Price: $5.21 The American composer Eliott Carter (b. 1908) celebrated his 100th birthday this past December.... |  Jazz Nocturne: American Concertos of the Jazz AgeBest Price: $4.93 |  Confrey: Piano MusicBest Price: $4.66 Once again, in its "American Classics" series, Naxos has pulled a pleasant surprise... |  Victor Herbert: Babes in Toyland; The Red MillBest Price: $5.47 I just want to say I completely endorse the opinions expressed by the other two reviewers thus... |
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