Article: Diamond, David: Symphony Number 1; Violin Concerto Number 2; The Enormous Room.(David Diamond: Symphony Number 1; Violin Concerto Number 2)(Sound Recording Review)

The Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz conducting, Ilkka Talvi, violin. Recorded in 1991 and 1992, at the Seattle Opera House. Engineer: John Eargle. 71+ minutes. Naxos 8.559157.

Diamond, like Roy Harris, Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, William Schuman, and Walter Piston, is a modern Romantic composer who is working in a post-Romantic era. It is an era dominated by "academic" music, which is anything but in the Romantic tradition. (Note that I am here talking about "serious" music, as opposed to rock country, rap, jazz, etc., which, let's face it, have been the dominant music of our particular age for decades.) Consequently, Diamond and the others in the neo-Romantic ...

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