Henry Flower
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I recently subscribed to the Naxos Music Library, and am having a wonderful time exploring it. One nice surprise was finding out that it includes material from BIS, Chandos and various other labels as well as Naxos itself.
Since there's so much available, I'd like some suggestions on particular lesser-known gems which people would recommend from any of the labels on the site. To start us off, I was quite excited today to discover Nicolas Bacri, a contemporary French composer more or less in the Hindemith/Hartmann tradition; I particularly like the 4th symphony, which manages to blend movements paying homage in turn to Strauss, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Weill into a brief but satisfying whole.
Since there's so much available, I'd like some suggestions on particular lesser-known gems which people would recommend from any of the labels on the site. To start us off, I was quite excited today to discover Nicolas Bacri, a contemporary French composer more or less in the Hindemith/Hartmann tradition; I particularly like the 4th symphony, which manages to blend movements paying homage in turn to Strauss, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Weill into a brief but satisfying whole.