The Music of Alan Shulman <BR> BRIDGE 9119This CD presents rarely heard music of Alan Shulman in performances by one of the country's great orchestras the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Like the music of his contemporaries Morton Gould and Leonard Bernstein, Alan Shulman's music reflects the "gritty, urban style" popular in New York in the '40s and '50s. None of Shulman's orchestral works were recorded. They were, however, performed by virtually every major American symphony orchestra, and conducted

expressive

It begs the question: Is a score that is little more than an outline

that would be doing the music a disservice: again

" Recorded in the acoustically superb Odense Koncerthuset (Denmark)

In addition to his work with his own Haydn Orchestra

Self-Referential Songs and Realistic Virelais (1990)

and highest ratings from France's Repertoire

Waltz in F

and followed the violinist to America

He employs ornaments sparingly

and “beautiful and intense” (The New York Times)

“All four recordings are delectable