Richard Pennycuick writes:
>I'm now anxious to lay my hands on some more of this apparently highly
>interesting composer. Any suggestions?
Richard mentioned his purchase of Peterson-Berger's 3rd symphony on Musica
Sveciae. I think that CPO has released his 1st and 2nd symphony as well
as the third. Concerning solo piano music, BIS released a couple of years
ago a disc which received some good and not so good reviews in periodicals.
Richard might want to sample that disc; perhaps one of the web sales sites
has some audio samplers. In fact, if I remember right, I listened to sound
samples of the BIS disc from CDNOW. Based on those samples, I did not
acquire the disc; the music sounded too romantic and inconsequential.
I haven't reached a final conclusion on my opinion of Peterson-Berger's
music. I have the three first symphonies and need to listen to them more
to get a good handle on the man.
Don Satz
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