Since you are interested in Glass: The Light / Symphony No. 4, 'Heroes', here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
MICHAEL HERSCH
Hersch: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Fracta / Arrache Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop (Conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Championed by distinguished conductors such as Marin Alsop and Mariss Jansons, since his mid-20s, Michael Hersch's music has been performed by leading orchestras and concert artists. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Story of American Classical Music Barrymore Scherer, author with Various Artists [ Naxos American Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] Includes music by MacDowell, Foote, Chadwick, Beach, Ives, Sousa, Joplin, Gershwin, Copland, Schuman, Barber, Cage, Bernstein, Carter, Glass, Adams and many others. |
WILLIAM SCHUMAN
Schuman: Violin Concerto, New England Triptych (with Ives-Variations on 'America') Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Jose Serebrier (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Jun/2001 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (July 2001) |
JOHN ADAMS / JOHN CORIGLIANO
Adams: Violin Concerto / Corigliano: The Red Violin: Chaconne Chloe Hanslip (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin, with Charles Owen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "(Chloe's) debut with Naxos is a formidable addition to the label's encyclopaedic series of American classics...Throughout this major 20th-century concerto, the clarity of the Naxos recording is immaculate, making the balance between soloist and... |
RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
Vocal and Chamber Music Continuum / Cheryl Seltzer / Joel Sachs [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "Seeger's music has restless, ambiguous harmonies and mystical auras, slow movements are often dark and brooding, and fast movements are filled with exuberant themes, developed in an improvisatory spirit. |
JONATHAN BERGER
Miracles and Mud / Sink or Swim / Doubles / for amos Livia Sohn (violin) / St Lawrence String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] Jonathan Berger’s music is deeply spiritual and hauntingly evocative. |