Steve Kraske talks with Kansas City Symphony executive director Frank Byrne about some of the finer CD releases in recent months.
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Steve Kraske talks with Kansas City Symphony executive director Frank Byrne about some of the finer CD releases in recent months.
We hear music from Charles Avison, Felix Mendelssohn, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber, and a recording by the Kansas City Symphony: the Final Fugue from "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten.
Frank Byrne's Selections: Composer Selection CD Title Ensemble/Conductor CD Label/Number Composer Selection CD Title Ensemble/Conductor CD Label/Number Composer Selection CD Title Ensemble/Conductor CD Label/Number Composer Selection CD Title Ensemble/Conductor CD Label/Number Composer Selection CD Title Ensemble/Conductor CD Label/Number | Charles Avison Concerto Grosso No. 3 - mvt. IV 12 Concerti Grossi The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman Hyperion CDD22060 Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 - mvt III Mendelssohn Symphonies 1 & 4 Bergen Philharmonic / Andrew Litton BIS SACD 1584 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Festival Coronation March Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus / Valery Gergiev Mariinsky SACD MAR0503 Samuel Barber First Essay for Orchestra, Op. 12 Barber Symphonies 1&2 Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Marin Alsop Naxos 8.559024 Benjamin Britten Final Fugue from "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" Britten's Orchestra Kansas City Symphony / Michael Stern Reference Recordings RR-120 |