American Orchestral Song <BR> Music of Thomson, Harris, Parker, Carpenter and Griffes <br> BRIDGE 9254This is a wonderful collection, full of discoveries and surprises. Pride of place must go to the first recording of Roy Harris's Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun on a text by Walt Whitman. Harris's brilliant monodrama travels from rural America to the streets of Manhattan, all the while observing and commenting on the ravages of the Civil War. It is, in the words of one critic, "a great, lost 20th century American masterpiece, and among Harris's very

The virtuosic "Sextet in C Major"

a Parable for Soprano

Lancelot und Elaine

Valse in E

and Christoph Eschenbach

It's a pleasure to have Starobin's playing on CD

wispy but insistent figures very gradually morph into gently swinging lines in what the composer calls

Bass-Baritone

David Holzman surely stands among the greatest living exponents of 20th-century American music

the masterpiece that opens the 27-year old Israeli pianist’s debut CD recording

Gregory D'Agostino

but also for the manner in which Musgrave sustains