Tag Archives: Classical
Great Southern Land–Australian Trumpet Music by Brendan Collins
Contemporary works for trumpet, piano and some trombone. Nice! Advertisements
Hakan A. Toker–Messing Around—with the classics!
Toker re-arranges all kinds of baroque, classical and jazz pieceswith jazzy-classical inflection. Some pieces work better than others, the more modern works in my opinion.
Crosswind
Nice combination of saxophone and flute, contemporary pieces, play!
Dennis Kam–Several Times
Pieces composed over 40 yr span, varying, intense, abstract. Play most!
Gottschalk and Cuba
100 yrs of Cuban piano music influenced by Louis Moreau Gottschalk–Creole and American. Play!
Leon Kirchner–Music for Orchestra
Fairly intense, forceful works,s, but varying rhythmically.
Hayes Biggs–When You Are Reminded by the Instruments
Widely varying works for a variety of instruments (sax, piano, strings, orchestra, steel pan) or choir.
Echoes of Bach
Mike Block’s exploration of Bach and other composer’s Bach-like pieces. Play!
Nikolai Kapustin–Complete Chamber Works for Flute
Jazz inflected , contemporary works for flute, strings and piano. Nice!
Payton MacDonald–Solo Marimba Commissions Vol. 2
Five marimba pieces, varying in style and length. Play!
Debussy and Ravel–Strings Quartets
The Jerusalem Quartet performs two string quartets, both recognizable and wonderful, by Ravel and Debussy. Play!
Notus–Of Radiance & Refraction
Collegiate chorale group performs contemporary works, some with musical accompaniment and electronics.
Michael G. Cunningham–Mezzanine Seat–Works for Orchestra
Mostly short orchestral pieces, contemporary. Play!
Sonidos Surenos–Art Songs from Argentina, Mexico & Brazil
Songs from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, gracious classical with native musical elements.
Hans Winterberg–Chamber Music Vol. 1
From 1940’s through the 50’s, these are modern sounding, abstract works for winds, strings, piano. Play most!
Songs From Chicago
American narrative songs from Chicago, most composed in the early 1900’s, with piano.
Embracing the Wind
Modern works for flute, harp and strings. Play!
Philippe Gaubert–Ballade
Early 1900’s works, clearly Impressionistic, gracious, lovely flute pieces. Play!
Wunderbach–J.S. Bach
Bach works for guitar or transcribed. Nice!
Launch
Unusual combination of sax and harp, beautiful modern/contemporary pieces. Play!
Songs & Dances
American works for ensemble with strings, flute or oboe. Play!
Dvorak, Janacek, Martinu–String Works
Beautiful Slavic works for string orchestra. Dvorak’s well known. Play!
Images of Brazil
Modern pieces for violin and piano by Brazilian composers, varied. Play!
Celebrating Women Composers
Works by living women composers (Zwilich, Higdon, Auerbach), all contemporary. Play!
