Spring 2008 Writings

Liner Notes. Nicolas FLAGELLO: Missa Sinfonica Naxos 8.559347 Read the liner notes

BARBER Vanessa • Dimitri Mitropoulos, cond; Eleanor Steber (Vanessa); Rosalind Elias (Erika); Nicolai Gedda (Anatol) et al; Ch of the Vienna State Opera; Vienna Philharmonic • ORFEO C653 0621, mono/AAD (2 CDs: 126:12) Live Broadcast: Salzburg Festival 8/16/58
& Interview with Barber (in German and English) Read the CD Review

BLOCH Piano Quintets: No. 1. String Quartets: No. 5 • Pro Arte Quartet; Howard Karp (pn)• LAUREL LR-853 (ADD; 67:01) Read the CD Review

HANSON Merry Mount • Gerard Schwarz, cond; Richard Zeller (Wrestling Bradford); Lauren Flanigan (Lady Marigold Sandys); Louise Marley (Plentiful Tewke); Walter MacNeil (Sir Gower Lackland); Charles Robert Austin (Praise-God Tewke); Northwest Boychoir; Seattle Girls’ Choir; Seattle S Ch and O • NAXOS 8.669012-13 (2 CDs; 2:04) Read the CD Review

PANUFNIK Heroic Overture. Landscape. Symphony No. 3, “Sinfonia Sacra.” Symphony No. 5, “Sinfonia di Sfere” • John Storgårds, cond; Tampere Phil O • ONDINE ODE 1101-5 (75:27) Read the CD Review

PANUFNIK HOMAGE TO POLISH MUSICMariusz Smolij, cond; Polish Ch O; Hanna Turonek (fl); Igor Cechoco (tpt) • NAXOS 8.570032 (57:58) Hommage à Chopin. Old Polish Suite. Jagiellonian Triptych. Concerto in Modo Antico. Old Polish Music—Divertimento after Janiewicz Read the CD Review

PASATIERI Frau Margot • Lauren Flanigan (Frau Margot); Morgan Smith (Ted Steinert); Patricia Risley (Kara Sondstrom); et al. soloists; Joseph Illick, cond; Fort Worth Opera Orchestra • ALBANY TROY 965/966 (2 CDs; 1:59) Read the CD Review

RAUTAVAARA Garden of Spaces. Clarinet Concerto. Cantus Arcticus • Leif Segerstam, cond; Helsinki PO; Richard Stoltzman (cl) • ONDINE ODE-1041-2 (59:08) Read the CD Review

SHOSTAKOVICH Sonata for Violin and Piano. Jazz Suite No. 1 (trans. M. Gluzman). AUERBACH Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano. Lonely Suite • Vadim Gluzman (vn); Angela Yoffe (pn) • BIS CD-1592 (67:16) Read the CD Review

Picks of the Year - 2007 Walter Simmons Read the CD Review