Streaming Worldwide: Our Jazz Heritage and Musical Heritage Society Recordings
Coming October 9th: Gene Bertoncini & Michael Moore "Close Ties"
They aren't wearing ties on the cover...so we're not sure what this album is about...unless you are interested in a glorious, tasteful, quiet, intense album of arrangements for guitar and string bass. Classical music (Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin) meets jazz (Ellington, Gershwin). A beautiful nylon-string legend.
FEATURED REISSUES ON THE MHS LABEL
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American Classics - Now Streaming!
EXPLORE THIS RECORDINGA new vault treasure - the Composers String Quartet performs music of the "grand old men" of American composition - Copland, Ives, Barber and Cowell. Features the rarely heard original string quartet arrangement that became Barber's most famous work, the "Adagio" for Strings.
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LISTEN AND EXPLOREIn all branches of the arts there are the introspective creators, for whom technique is the accompaniment to inner reflection which just happens to find its way through a medium of artistic expression. One hesitates to call such art the outlet 'of mysticism, but as an approximation that's not bad. I remember my first view of an Alben Pinkum Ryder painting a darkly lit, hardly visible horseman rode across a canvas that seemed indifferent to the event as an imitation of life but was tuned to the inner desperation of the rider to I get somewhere. Such art is not easily appropriated, and its composers are likely to be difficult to follow, giving them singular reputations but little posterity as schools to be followed.
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Autumn in New England
LISTEN AND EXPLORE!Nineteenth-century New England was the cradle of America’s first native art. Although music bloomed late in the flinty soil, New England boasted many original and trailbreaking composers and virtuosi The Musical Heritage Society has now given us an opportunity to see how three New England musicians—born within 11 years of each other—struggled and ultimately triumphed in the search for an American voice.
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Flute Americana
LISTEN AND EXPLORE!Paula Robison brings charm and virtuosic talent to these works, most of which are rarely recorded. Long out of print, this recording is now streaming.
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Beautiful Brahms
LISTEN AND EXPLORE!The wonderful Harold Wright graces the MHS label, bringing his considerable talent to the clarinet sonatas of Johannes Brahms. Joined by pianist Harris Goldsmith, Wright revels in the qualities of his chosen instrument: from golden tones to raspy attacks, he finds the great moments in this strikingly gorgeous music.
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Masterpieces of 20th Century Piano
LISTEN AND EXPLORENo need to be frightened...this remarkable collection shows how indebted the composers of the early 20th century were to Bach and Mozart. These solo piano works all pay homage to the suites of Bach and the solo sonatas of Mozart. Now...they are distinctly 20th century but they won't make you want to rip the volume knob off your player, either.
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A Tribute to the Grand Old Men
EXPLOREWorks by Copland, Ives and Cowell, as well as the original string quartet arrangement of Barber's famous "Adagio", the 2nd movement of his string quartet.
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Musical Adventures
EXPLORECarter has made many profoundly original discoveries in rhythm, harmony, and form, but perhaps his most important achievement has been the renewal of instrumental virtuosity in his works.
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EXPLOREAlong with "Songs of Pomp, Circumstances, and Fire Prevention" for male quartet, and a string quartet transcription of the Flying Dutchman Overture (which "includes all the mistakes ever made by any orchestra"), Minimax is an example of Hindemith's incidental music unpublished during his lifetime. His exuberant sense of humor and love of parody eventually got him in trouble and his music banned.
