Marlboro Music Festival: 50th Anniversary Album <BR> BRIDGE 9108A/BWinner: CMA Award The Marlboro Music Festival has been a mecca for chamber music in America. Founded by Rudolf Serkin, the Festival recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with the release of these performances. Highlights include Benita Valente's gorgeous reading of Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, and Sandor Vegh leading a wild performance of Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra. Reviews: An admirable salute to Marlboro, enshrining some generous

he won the Rachmaninoff Prize

Benjamin Britten

Sonata in A minor

“VALIS is an aural wonderland

"of all the violin players of the last century

compiling Crumb’s three orchestral works

Consider this a kind of "greatest hits" for the modern classical guitar

with powerful Ostinato rhythms suggesting both tribal dancing and the teeming forces of life within the forest

“Trumpeter Steve Lampert is someone who has also absorbed the ideas of the past and come out sounding very 21st century

Waltz in F-minor

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New York City's virtuoso new music band