Pianist and composer Berkeley wrote compositions that are lyrical, bittersweet and don’t let the listener know where they are going. Impressionistic but with some tension. Play all!
File: Classical composer: Berkeley
Contemporary works, delicate yet strong, lyrical and including a range of instruments–flute, oboe, piano, marimba, saxophone, clarinet and one work with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Play all!
File: Classical collections: Bilotta & Gaines
These quartets include elements from the Romantic (future) and the Baroque (past) eras, and promote the quartet as a dialog between instruments. Hadyn sought to challenge himself in composing, and these are considered masterworks of the quartet form. Play all!
File: Classical composer: Hadyn
Contemporary works by various composers (amongst them Ewazen, Messner and Hyman) performed by three friends who formed the Palisades Virtuosi, in order to promote works for flute, clarinet and piano. Lyrical, quiet, lilting and even amusing. Play all!
File: Classical collections: Palisades Virtuosi
Lyrical, contemporary pieces, some with voice, tending to be quiet and gracious. Try 8, 11-13.
File: Classical composer: Boykan
These pieces are exemplary of the Franco-Belgian violin school, the basis of the modern technical use of the violin. Play any!
File: Classical collections: Papavrami
This ensemble seeks to display trombone works diversely and through time–Renaissance forward. Includes works by Pergolesi, Strauss, Bozza, Bach and Deemer. Debut recording. Play any!
File: Classical collections: Chicago Trombone Consort
Two of Czechoslovakia’s best composers began as a teacher/student relationship (Dvorak as teacher) and then became a family affair when Suk married Dvorak’s daughter. These two works are Romantic, lush and pastorale. And every classical music library needs a version of Czech Suite! Play all!
File: Classical collections: Dvorak
Composer Turina, born in Sevilla in 1882, incorporated fantasy into many of his piano works, desiring to evoke picturesque images. There are elements of Latin American rhythms, Spanish traditional, impressionistic and modern elements. Evocative, energetic, lyrical.
Try 7, 9-11,16-18, 20
File: Classical composer: Turina
Brahms embraced the lively and passionate “Hungarian” style and incorporated it into his “home” pieces–works written for 4 hands to be performed at home for entertainment. Lovely!
File: Classical composer: Brahms