London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick palmer – Rosner: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:29:07 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
The musical language of the New York-based Arnold Rosner (1945–2013) clothes the modal harmony and rhythm of pre-Baroque polyphony in rich Romantic colours, producing a style that is instantly recognisable and immediately appealing. This fourth Toccata Classics album of his orchestral music opens with an engaging and energetic early Scherzo and a Concerto Grosso that has something of the dignified reserve of the Swiss composer Frank Martin, whom Rosner much admired – as the broadly expressive Variations on a Theme by Frank Martin go on to show. Rosner’s A Mylai Elegy, a symphonic poem inspired by a massacre of civilians in Vietnam, has few equals in the orchestral repertoire: it veers from profound sadness to wild, freewheeling anger – protest music at its grandest and most passionate.
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Nick Palmer – Turns It On (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:38 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy
Plush voice, plush style. That, and two singles that have received some notice, are the factors here for Nick Palmer. In addition, Palmer has an impressive way of handling, a ballad, and a pair of popular songs from the movies. At the time of release it has been a bonus to Easy Listening radio stations.
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Nick Palmer – For the First Time (Coma Prima) (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 28:18 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy
Plush voice, plush style. That, and two singles that have received some notice, are the factors here for Nick Palmer. In addition, Palmer has an impressive way of handling, a ballad, such as “No Arms Can Ever Hold You”. At the time of release it has been a bonus to Easy Listening radio stations.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Palmer – Rosner: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:28 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
The musical language of the New York-based Arnold Rosner (19452013) had its roots in the modal harmony and rhythm of pre-Baroque polyphony and evolved in an array of unusual directions, producing a style that is instantly recognizable and immediately appealing as can be heard in the three works on this recording. Rosners Nocturne suggests the immensity and the implacable violence of outer space, whereas his overture Tempus Perfectum has its starting point in Renaissance dance. The monumental Sixth Symphony opens with music of volcanic ferocity and vehemence; the central Adagio then provides an island of troubled calm before the dignified opening of the finale presages a symphonic Allegro of wild, freewheeling energy; only when its immense force is spent does this powerful masterpiece sink to an uneasy close.
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