The excellent Vagn Holmboe series from Dacapo continues with this superb recording of three concertos. Performances are by the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dima Slobodeniouk with soloists Erik Heide and Lars Anders Tomter, violin and viola respectively. By my count,...

Where better to look for musical inspiration than to inexplicable phenomena. Trombonist and composer Curtis Hasselbring leads his jazz septet, The New Mellow Edwards plus three additional players, in a hypothetical interpretation of mysterious number puzzles transmitted on “Number...

Wolfgang Adam Anton Hoffer may well be the most obscure composer we have ever featured here on Expedition Audio. That’s saying a lot. When I search the internet for his name, the only relative results that I get have to do with this disc. The album is from the New Classical Adventures...

I’m completely bewildered by the fact that these charming romantic miniatures for piano by Manuel Ponce are so under represented in the catalog, especially given how attractive and immediately appealing they are. With the exception of a couple of the more popular tunes, and another few...

February of 2013 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Bohemian composer Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763-1850). The string quartet form was central to Gyrowetz’ output as over sixty published works in the genre indicates, including sixteen that comprise his Opuses 1-3. This cpo release...

Referred to by some admirers as “the Polish Handel,” Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665-1734) was the most important composer of the Polish high baroque. This release from CD Accord – all class, inside and out – contains the world premiere recordings of his Missa Rorate,...

To jazz aficionados and music explorers alike: here is a refreshing new album of electronically-infused jazz worth your attention. The Kandinsky Effect is a transatlantic trio composed of Warren Walker (saxophone/effects), Gaël Petrina (acoustic and electric bass/effects) and Caleb Dolister...

It’s always a pleasure to share our experiences exploring uncommon classical music with others. But rarely do we get a chance to discuss a recording with esteemed professionals such as Maestro Michael Alexander Willens. We at Expedition Audio were introduced to Mr. Willens when we...

Carl Heinrich Graun (1703-1759) is another enormously gifted composer whose music has been thoroughly eclipsed by that of great and like-sounding contemporaries. In Graun’s case, it’s Bach and Handel. Best known in his day as a composer of opera, Graun also produced a relatively...

From the opening measures of this Naxos CD, you’ll be thinking Respighi. The likeness may not last very long, but it’s meaningful. The music is by Luigi Mancinelli (1848-1921) and includes the world premiere recording of his Scene Veneziane Suite (Venetian Scenes) (1889), and...