Hidden Legacies: Weinberg and Korngold Kristina Reiko Cooper, cello. Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra/Constantin Orbelian Delos 3616 Total Time:  61:28 Recording:   ****/**** Performance: ****/****   Hidden Legacies  brings together works for cello and orchestra by two 20 th -Century composers whose lives were turned upside down by political turmoil and persecution of their Jewish heritage.  One of them, Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), is perhaps better known from his work

Here's the second installment of my personal survey of the symphony and recordings in my collection. The decade of the 1850s starts to see some rather unusual composers and works appear and it shows the growing availability of orchestras in new parts of the world. Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 1 (1852)                             French Radio & TV Orch./Jean Martinon Fry: Santa Claus Symphony (1853)                                Royal Scottish NO/Tony Rowe Smetana: Festive Symp

After picking up some boxed sets featuring music for the Ballets Russe and then the excellent stereo Sir Thomas Beecham set, I decided to explore my own large collection here by doing a little survey of symphonies across time starting in the 1820s and working my way forward. In this way, I could revisit some discs I had not had a chance to really just listen to in a long time. The choices of which performances to listen to grew out of that idea of making sure to explore so