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The American Trumpet - music for trumpet and orchestra by Eyler, Rouse, Starer, Sondheim, Carbon, Froom / Jeffrey Silberschlag, trumpet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-10-30

Works: Leo Eylar: Dance Suite, for trumpet & string orchestra; Steve Rouse: The Avatar; Robert Starer: Invocation, for trumpet & string orchestra (or piano); Stephen Sondheim: Sweeney Todd; John Carbon: Not...
Performers: Greitzer, Deborah; Silberschlag, Jeffrey
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: ; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

The unique qualities of the American trumpet tradition are celebrated in this wide-ranging disc. From the drama of Leo Eylar's dazzling Dance Suite to the...continue...
Recording information: Seattle Opera House, Seattle, WA (06/1994)....continue...

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo / Gerard Schwarz

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-09-25

Works: Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Intermezzo, Op. 72
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: ; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

This is "as good a performance and interpretation - and technical recording - of Also sprach Zarathustra as one would expect to find" (Gramophone). Inspired...continue...
Recording information: Seattle Center Opera House, USA (03/31/1987/05/13/1987)....continue...

Strauss: Symphonica Domestica; Symphonic Fragment from Die Liebe der Danae / Schwarz

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-09-25

Works: Richard Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica for orchestra, Op. 53 (TrV 209); Die Liebe der Danae - Opera, Op. 83, TrV 278
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: ; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Richard Strauss's orchestral music includes several works with autobiographical significance, including Ein Heldenleben (Naxos 8.554417). Scored for large symphony orchestra, the Symphonia domestica d...continue...
Recording information: Seattle Center Opera House, USA (11/14/1988/11/15/1988)....continue...

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, orchestral suite and waltz sequences

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-09-25

Works: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Performers: Cerminaro, John; Hausmann, Ben; Larionoff, Maria
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: Seattle Symphony Orchestra

One of Richard Strauss's supreme achievements, Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose) is a romantic story of love and intrigue, a miraculous bend of...continue...
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Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Pushkin Waltz No. 2 / Gerard Schwarz, Seattle SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-07-31

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Pieces (10) for Piano from "Romeo and Juliet", Op. 75; Romeo and Juliet Suite no 2, Op. 64b; Two Pushkin Waltzes, Op. 120
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: ; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Sergey Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet was completed after the composer's final repatriation to Soviet Russia after a period abroad. It was written for the Kirov...continue...
Recording information: Seattle Center Opera House, USA (03/11/1986/10/14/1986)....continue...

Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 1 "Exile"; Symphony No. 50 "Mount Saint Helens" / Schwarz, Seattle SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-07-31

Works: Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no 1 ("Exile Symphony"), Op. 17; Fantasy on Japanese woodprints, Op. 211; Symphony no 50 ("Mount St. Helens"), Op. 360
Performers: Johnson, Ron
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: ; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

One of the most intriguing and individual of 20th century American composers, Alan Hovhaness rejected the cosmopolitan modernism of other leading composers of the 1930s...continue...
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Peter Mennin: "Moby Dick"; Symphony no 3; Symphony no 7 "Variation-Symphony" / Schwarz, Seattle SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-07-31

Works: Peter Mennin: Concertato for Orchestra "Moby Dick"; Symphony no 3; Symphony no 7 "Variation-Symphony"
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: ; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Peter Mennin was a leading member of the school of American symphonic composers who came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, a group that...continue...
Recording information: Seattle Opera House, Seattle, WA (1994-11-21_1994-11-22&1995-)....continue...