NAXOS AMERICAN

During his brief life, Charles Griffes was able to compose music of distinctive beauty. He was fascinated by the music of the French-Impressionist composers Debussy and Ravel but was also influenced...

Grofe / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Stromberg Grand Canyon Suite / Mississippi Suite CD1. Mississippi Suite: I. Father of Waters 2. Mississippi Suite: II. Huckleberry Finn 3. Mississippi Suite:...

Grofe / Stromberg / Bournemouth So Death Valley Suite CD1. On the Set-Sweepers 2. The Stand-In 3. Carpenters and Electricians 4. Preview 5. Production Number 6. Director-Star-Ensemble 7. The River 8...

Hadley / Williams / Nat'L Sym Orch Of Ukraine Symphony 4 / Ocean / Culprit Fay CD1. The Ocean, Op.99: Tone Poem 2. The Culptri Fay, Op.62: Rhap 3. Sym No.4 in D, Op.64: North (Lento Grave; Allegro...

Hagen / Lyric Fest After Words / Songs Of Experience / Phantoms CD

Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon' first, and highly successful, opera is based on the life of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin, the home he built for himself in Wisconsin.1...

Professor of Music at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, Adolphus Hailstork has written three symphonies, the third of which is dedicated to the artists on this recording, David Lockington...

Hanson' intent in 1930 to write music that was "young in spirit, lyrical and romantic in temperament", was fully realized in his ardent Second Symphony. This, his best known symphonic statement,...

Howard Hanson was an unabashed Romantic and this collection of some of his shorter works shows him in that light, brightly. The longest work here, at 16 minutes, is the concerto for organ, harp, and...

Hanson' last two symphonies offer a fitting conclusion to his compositional career. Commissioned for the 185th anniversary season of the New York Philharmonic and dedicated to Leonard Bernstein, the...

Howard Hanson, a composer of imagination and sweep and a colorist of huge eloquence, is one of the most approachable of all twentieth century symphonists. His guiding spirit was always Sibelius, and...

Hanson' symphonic cycle is one of the most important in American music. The Third Symphony, composed between 1936 and 1938, is imbued with the rich Nordic sensibility that runs through the First.1. I...