NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS

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Lori LAITMAN (b. 1955)

	The seed of dream (2004) 8.559379 Reviews by Robert Hugill and Bob Briggs
	Vedem (2010) Fathers (2002, rev. 2010) 8.559685 Review by Oleg Ledeniov

David LANG (b.1957 )

Pierced (2007) Heroin (Reed, arr. Lang 2002) Cheating, Lying, Stealing (1993/1995) How to Pray (2002) Wed (1996) 8.559615 Review by Bob Briggs

Morten LAURIDSEN (b. 1943)

Madrigali (1987) Les Chansons de Roses (1993) Mid-Winter Songs (1983) O magnum mysterium (1994) 8.559304 Review by Dan Morgan

Henri LAZAROF (b 1932)

Tableaux (after Kandinsky) for Piano and Orchestra Violin Concerto (1985-86) Symphony No. 2 (1990) 8.559159 Review by Jonathan Woolf

Benajmin LEES (b. 1924)

	Symphony No. 4 ('Memorial Candles') (1985) 8.559002 Review by Rob Barnett and David Wright
	String Quartet No.1 (1952) String Quartet No.5 (2002) String Quartet No.6 (2005) 8.559628 Review by Glyn Pursglove

Jonathan LESHNOFF (b. 1973)

Symphony No. 4 Heichalos (2017) Guitar Concerto (2013) Starburst (2010) 8.559809 Review by Rob Barnett

Frank Ezra LEVY (b. 1930)

A Summer Overture (1997) Cello Concerto No. 2 (2002) Rondo Tarantella (2003) Symphony No. 3 (1997) 8.559234 Reviews by David Blomenberg and David Dunsmore

Norman LLOYD (1909-80)

Three Scenes from Memory Five Pieces for Dance (1935-38) Episodes for piano Sonata for Piano (1958) 8.559767 Review by Steve Arloff

Dan LOCKLAIR (b. 1949)

	Symphony of Seasons (Symphony No.1) (2002) Lairs of Soundings (1982) Phoenix and Again (1982) In Memory – H.H.L. (2005) Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (2004) 8.559337 Reviews by Gwyn Parry-Jones and Jonathan Woolf
	Symphony No. 2, ‘America’, (2016) Hail the Coming Day (A Festive Piece for Orchestra) (2013) Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (2010) PHOENIX for orchestra (2007) 8.559860 Reviews by Jim Westhead and Michael Wilkinson

Charles Martin LOEFFLER (1861-1935)

Music for Four Stringed Instruments (1917) String Quartet (1889) Quintet in One Movement for 3 Violins, Viola and Cello (1894) 8.559077 Review by Paul Shoemaker

Hannibal LOKUMBE (b. 1948)

Dear Mrs Parks (2004/5) 8.559668 Review by Bob Briggs

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

	Piano Music Vol. 1 Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces Fireside Tales, New England Idylls 8.559010 Review by Rob Barnett
	Piano Music Vol. 2 First Modern Suite, In Lilting Rhythm Six Idylls After Goethe, Piano Sonata No. 3 ('Norse') 8.559011 Review by Rob Barnett
	Piano Music Vol. 3 Sonata No. 4 Keltic (1901), Forgotten Fairy Tales (1897) Six Heine Poems (1887), Twelve Virtuoso Studies (1894) 8.559019 Review by Rob Barnett
	Piano Music Vol. 4 Etude de Concert, Second Modern suite, Serenata Two Fantasy Pieces, Twelve Etudes 8.559030 Review by Rob Barnett
	Complete Songs 8.559032 Review by Rob Barnett
	Piano Concerto No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 2 Hexentanz (Witches Dance) Romance for Cello and Orchestra 8.559049 Review by John Phillips and Rob Barnett
	Suite No. 1 Suite No. 2 ('Indian') Hamlet and Ophelia 8.559075 Reviews by John Phillips and Adrian Smith

George Frederick McKAY (1899-1970)

	From A Moonlit Ceremony (1945) Harbor Narrative (1934) Evocation Symphony "Symphony for Seattle" (1951) 8.559052 Review by Christopher Thomas
	Caricature Dance Suite (1924), From My Tahoe Window - Summer Moods and Patterns, Americanistic Etude (1924), An April Suite (1924), Dance Suite No. 2 (1938), Dancing in a Dream (1945), Excerpts from Five Songs for Soprano (1964), Every Flower That Ever Grew (1969), Suite for Viola and Piano (1948) 8.559143 Reviews by Rob Barnett and Neil Horner
	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1940) Suite on Sixteenth Century Hymn Tunes (1962) Sinfonietta No. 4 (1942) Song Over The Great Plains (1953) 8.559225 Reviews by John Leeman, Kevin Sutton and John Phillips
	Epoch (1935) 8.559330 Reviews by Rob Barnett and William Kreindler

William McCLELLAND (1950-)

Where the Shadow Glides 8.559906 Review by Bruce McCollum

Cindy McTEE (1953-)

Circuits (1990) Symphony No. 1: Ballet for Orchestra (2002) Einstein’s Dream (2004) Double Play (2010) 8.559765 Reviews by Rob Barnett and David Dunsmore

William MASON (1829-1908)

Piano Music Silver Spring, Capriccio Fantastico, Rêverie Poétique, Improvisation, Valse-Caprice, Deux Humoresques de Bal, La Sabotière; Danse aux Sabots, Lullaby, Badinage, Caprice Grotesque, Ballade et Barcarolle, Trois Préludes, Amourette, Valse de Bravoure 8.559142 Reviews by Jonathan Woolf and Don Satz

Peter MENNIN (1923-1983)

	Concertato Moby Dick, for orchestra (1952) Symphony no.3 (1946) Symphony no.7 Variation-Symphony (1963) 8.559718 Review by Byzantion
	Five Pieces for Piano (1949) Sonata for piano (1963) 8.559767 Review by Steve Arloff

Gian Carlo MENOTTI (1911-2007)

Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951) My Christmas (1987) 8.669019 Reviews by Simon Thompson and Dan Morgan

Paul MORAVEC (b.1957)

	The Time Gallery (2000) [42:15] Protean Fantasy (1993) [9:33] Ariel Fantasy (2002) 8.559267 Reviews by David Blomenberg, Dominy Clements and Kevin Sutton
	Tempest Fantasy (2002), Mood Swings (1999) B.A.S.S. Variations (1999), Scherzo (2002) 8.559323 Review by Dan Morgan
	Chamber Symphony (2003), Autumn Song (2000) Cool Fire (2001) 8.559393 Reviews by Kevin Sutton and Dominy Clement
	Vita brevis (2009) Characteristics (1996) Useful Knowledge: A Franklin Fantasy (2006) 8.559698 Review by Paul Godfrey

Jerome MOROSS (1913–1983)

Frankie and Johnny (1938) Those Everlasting Blues (1932) Willie the Weeper (1948) 8.559086 Review by Hubert Culot

Robert MUCZYNSKI (b. 1929)

Complete Flute Music Wind Quintet (1985), Duos for Flutes (1973), Moments for flute and piano (1992), Fragments for woodwind trio (1958) Three Preludes for unaccompanied flute (1962), Movements for wind quintet (1962), Duos for flute and clarinet (1984) Flute Sonata (1961) 8.559001 Review by Rob Barnett

Leo ORNSTEIN (1892?-2002)

Piano Works A Morning in the Woods, Danse Sauvage (Wild Men’s Dance), Piano Sonata Number 4, Impressions of the Thames, Tarantelle, Piano Sonata Number 7, A Long Remembered Sorrow, Suicide in an Airplane. 8.559104 Reviews by Kevin Sutton and Jonathan Woolf

John Knowles PAINE (1839-1906)

Overture to Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', op.28 (1876) Shakespeare's 'Tempest' - Symphonic Poem, op.31 (1877) Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.23 (1872-75) 8.559747 Reviews by Byzantion, Rob Maynard and John Quinn

Carter PANN (b. 1972)

	Piano Concerto (1996-97) Deux Séjours (1994) Dance Partita (1995) Two Portraits of Barcelona (1994) 8.559043 Reviews by Rob Barnett and Adrian Smith
	The Piano's 12 Sides (2011-2012) The Bills (1997) The Cheese Grater - A Mean Two-Step (1996) Your Touch 8.559751 Review by Dan Morgan

Stephen PAULUS (1949-2014)

Concerto for String Quartet (Three Places of Enlightenment) (1995) Veil of Tears (from To be Certain of the Dawn) (2005) Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (2004) 8.559740 Review by Gwyn Parry-Jones

William PERRY (b. 1930)

Jamestown Concerto (2006) 8.559344 Reviews by Dan Morgan and Bob Briggs

Vincent PERSICHETTI (1915-1987)

Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 15 (1941) Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 10 (1940) Piano Sonatinas No. 1-6 (1950-54) Masques, Op. 99 (1965) 8.559725 Review by Lucy Jeffrey

Walter PISTON (1894-1976)

	Violin Concerto No. 1 (1939) Violin Concerto No. 2 (1960) Fantasia for violin and orchestra (1970) 8.559003 Review by Rob Barnett
	Quintet for Flute & String Quartet (1942) String Sextet (1964) Piano Quartet (1964) Piano Quintet (1949) 8.559071 Review by Adrian Smith
	Symphony No. 2 (1943) Symphony No. 6 (1955) 8.559161 Reviews by Lance Nixon and Jonathan Woolf
	Symphony No. 4 (1951) Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra (1963) Three New England Sketches (1959) 8.559162 Review by Neil Horner
	String Quartets: No. 1 (1933) No. 3 (1947) No. 5 (1962) 8.559630 Review by Gary Higginson
	Symphony No. 5 8.559875 Reviews by Dan Morgan and Leslie Wright

Quincy PORTER (1987-1966)

	String Quartet No.1 (1922-23) String Quartet No.2 (1925) String Quartet No.3 (1930) String Quartet No.4 (1931) 8.559305 Review by John France
	String Quartet No. 7 (1943) String Quartet No. 5 (1935) String Quartet No. 6 (1937) String Quartet No. 8 (1950) 8.559781 Review by Roy Westbrook

David POST (b. 1949)

String Quartet no.2 (2001) String Quartet no.3 (2003) String Quartet no.4 'Three Photographs of Abelardo Morell' (2005) 8.559661 Reviews by Byzantion and Robert Cummings

Florence PRICE (1887-1953)

	Symphony No. 1 in E minor (1932) Symphony No. 4 in D minor (1945) 8.559827 Reviews by Stephen Greenbank and Michael Wilkinson
	Symphony No. 3 in C minor (1940) The Mississippi River (1934) Ethiopia’s Shadow in America (1932) 8.559897 Reviews by Nick Barnard and Lee Denham

Kevin PUTS (b. 1972)

Symphony No. 2 (2002) River’s Rush (2004) Flute Concerto (2013/14) 8.559794 Reviews by John Quinn and Paul Corfield Godfrey

Matthew QUAYLE (b. 1976)

String Quartet no.1 (2005) String Quartet no.2 'Sweet Insanity' (2006) String Quartet no.3 (2016) 8.559851 Review by Stephen Greenbank

Steve REICH (b. 1936)

Music for Two or More Pianos Eight Lines Vermont Counterpoint New York Counterpoint City Life 8.559862 Review by Marc Rochester

Terry RILEY (b. 1935)

The Palmian Chord Ryddle (2011) At the Royal Majestic (2013) 8.559739 Review by Michael Wilkinson

George ROCHBERG (b. 1918)

	Symphony No. 5 (1984-85) Black Sounds (1965) Transcendental Variations (1975) 8.559115 Review by Neil Horner
	Violin Concerto (1974, rev. 2001) 8.559129 Review by Rob Barnett
	Symphony No. 2 (1955-56) [31:28] Imago Mundi (Image of the World) for large orchestra (1973) 8.559182 Reviews by Michael Cookson, Rob Barnett and John Phillips
	Symphony No. 1 (1948-49, rev. 1977, 2002-03) 8.559214 Reviews by Derek Warby and Brian Burtt
	Piano Works Vol. 3 Partita-Variations (1976) Nach Bach (1966) Sonata-Fantasia (1956) 8.559633 Review by Dan Morgan

Ned ROREM (b. 1923)

	Selected Songs 8.559084 Review by Jonanathan Woolf
	End of Summer (1985) Book of Hours (1975) Bright Music (1987) 8.559128 Reviews by Hubert Culot and Rob Barnett
	Symphony No. 1 (1950) Symphony No. 2 (1956) Symphony No. 3 (1958) 8.559149 Reviews by Rob Barnett, John Quinn, Paul Shoemaker and Kevin Sutton
	Pilgrims (1958) Flute Concerto (2002) Violin Concerto (1985) 8.559278 Reviews by Patrick Waller, Rob Barnett and David Harbin
	Piano Concerto 2 (1951) Cello Concerto (2002) 8.559315 Reviews by Bob Briggs and John Quinn
	Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1998) After Reading Shakespeare (1981) 8.559316 Reviews by Glyn Pursglove and John Quinn
	Mountain Song, for flute and piano (1949) Romeo and Juliet, for flute and guitar (1977) Trio, for flute, cello and piano (1960) Book of Hours, for flute and harp (1975) Four Prayers, for flute and piano (2006) 8.559674 Review by Byzantion
	Piano Album I (1978-2001) Six Friends 8.559761 Review by Steve Arloff

Arnold ROSNER (b. 1945)

Symphony No. 5 "Missa sine Cantoribus super Salve Regina" (1973) 8.559347 Reviews by Rob Barnett, William Kreindler and Jonathan Woolf

Christopher ROUSE (1949-2019)

Symphony No. 5 (2015) Supplica (2013) Concerto for Orchestra (2008) 8.559852 Reviews by Robert Cummings and William Hedley

Carl RUGGLES (1876-1971)

Sun-Treader (1926-1931) 8.559836 Reviews by Dan Morgan and John Quinn

Jake RUNESTAD (b. 1986)

Sing, Wearing the Sky & other choral works 8.559892 Review by Bruce McCollum

Frederic RZEWSKI (b. 1938)

	The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975) Four North American Ballads: No.4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (1979) 8.559360 Reviews by Dominy Clements and Jens Laurson
	Four pieces (1977) Hard Cuts (2011) The Housewife's Lament (1980) 8.559759 Review by Steve Arloff
	Piano Music Fantasia (1989-1999) Second Hand, or Alone at Last (Six Novelettes for piano left hand) (2005) De Profundis, for Speaking pianist (1992) 8.559760 Review by Steve Arloff