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| OPERA |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.) |
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| The
Wig |
1954 |
Maelos |
30 |
One Act (Flagello,
after Pirandello);
Chamber Orch. by Sbordoni-1990 |
|
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| Mirra |
1955 |
Maelos |
2:30 |
Three Acts (Flagello,
after Alfieri) |
|
|
| Rip van Winkle |
1957 |
Maelos |
30 |
Operetta for Children
(Christopher Fiore) |
|
|
| The
Sisters |
1958 |
Maelos |
60 |
One Act (Dean Mundy) |
Listen on YouTube |
"Flagello has the gift of writing gratefully for the voice, and his music has melodic sumptuousness. His orchestral texture is crystal-clear, and he knows how to underline dramatic events...first rate" (NY Herald Tribune) |
| The
Judgment of St. Francis |
1959 |
Lucks Music |
1:15 |
One Act (Armando Aulicino) |
|
"The most vigorous new opera I have come across in a long time... [Flagello] has shown an unmistakable and totally unconfused talent for the operatic theatre. (New Yorker);
"Robust emotionalism is unflinching in its conviction, and its intensity is sustained by a sure sense of pacing, a natural flow of expressive melody integrated throughout the musical texture, and an ability to use voices, chorus, and orchestra to their maximum effect." (Musical America) |
| Piper
of Hamelin |
1970 |
Maelos |
60 |
Three Acts (for Children;
Flagello, after Browning) |
Newport Classics
NCD-60153 |
"The solidity of the work's structure, and the sheer expressiveness of its music, fueled by a fervent sense of spirituality, combine to create a delightful, thoroughly convincing, and very moving experience." (Fanfare) |
| Beyond
the Horizon |
1983 |
Maelos |
2:00 |
Three Acts (Flagello,
after O'Neill) |
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| ORCHESTRA |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.) |
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| Notturno
Romano |
|
Maelos |
5 |
String Orchestra |
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Beowulf |
1949 |
Maelos |
20 |
Orchestra |
|
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| Suite
for Amber |
1951 |
Maelos |
10 |
Chamber Orchestra |
|
|
| Symphonic Aria |
1951 |
Wise Music Group |
5 |
Orchestra |
Artek
AR-0036-2
Listen on YouTube |
"Music that broods magnificently with searing strings and gloomy ostinati." (MusicWeb Intl.) "A heartfelt lament that's quite operatic in concept"(CLOFO.com) |
| Overture Burlesca |
1952 |
Maelos |
5 |
Orchestra |
Artek
AR-0002-2
Listen on YouTube |
"Delivers more than either its brief length or its genre implies... manages to travel some pretty deep emotional territory." (Classical Net) |
Mirra: Interlude and Dance
|
1955 |
Maelos |
10 |
Orchestra |
Artek
AR-0036-2
Listen on YouTube
Listen on YouTube |
"A tantalizing glimpse of a huge neo-romantic opera in an ancient and exotic Mediterranean setting with themes of forbidden love and thwarted desire" (Tempo);
"Their doleful fervency makes them seem much bigger, almost monumental, in effect" (American Record Guide) |
| Theme, Variations, and Fugue |
1956 |
Wise Music Group |
25 |
Orchestra |
Naxos
8.559148 |
"The rather sombre and ominous theme is followed by a set of nine sizeable variations displaying the many facets of Flagello's talents as well as some considerable formal mastery. The piece is rounded-off by a powerful fugue culminating in a monumental coda, with much percussion and organ." (MusicWeb Intl) |
| Missa
Sinfonica |
1957 |
Lucks Music |
35 |
Orchestra |
Naxos
8.559347
Listen on YouTube |
"This is ultra-romantic music, with a grand struggle to be fought and won" (ARG);
"Real hymnal beauty... genuine musical truthfulness to its subject material." (MusicWeb Intl) |
| Sea
Cliffs |
|
Maelos |
3 |
String Orchestra |
Naxos 8.559148
Listen on YouTube |
"This is high class light music... a most lovely piece" (MusicWeb Intl);
"A three and a half-minute moment of sublime serenity" (Fanfare) |
| "Interludio"
from The Sisters |
1958 |
Maelos |
5 |
Orchestra |
Artek
AR-0036-2
Listen on YouTube |
"A vivid aural correlative of aching human desire defeated by the inexorable counting down of time and fate." (ARG);
"Gloomy and intensely romantic, with a ticking figure heavy with threat" (MusicWeb Intl) |
| Concerto for String Orchestra |
1959 |
Maelos |
25 |
String Orchestra |
Listen on YouTube |
"Strength of utterance, sense of purposefulness and the linked logic of its extremely lyric line." (Buffalo News) |
"Andante
Languido"
from Concerto for Strings |
1959 |
Maelos |
10 |
String Orchestra |
Albany
TROY-143
Listen on YouTube |
"Can hardly fail to remind the listener of Barber's great Adagio, [but] the surprise is that its nobility and power make it a worthy companion." (ARG) |
"Adoration" from
Judgment of St. Francis |
1959 |
Maelos |
5 |
String Orchestra w/ Harp |
Citadel CTD-88107
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Lautrec: Ballet Suite |
1958;
1965 |
Wise Music Group |
15 |
Orchestra |
Phoenix
PHCD-125
Listen on YouTube |
"Sumptuously orchestrated, it is richly evocative of Parisian nightlife at the turn of the twentieth century." (Fanfare) |
| Prelude
and Fugue |
1966 |
Maelos |
10 |
String Orchestra
(1st position) |
Listen on YouTube |
|
| A Goldoni Overture |
1967 |
Wise Music Group |
5 |
Orchestra |
Artek
AR-0002-2
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Serenata |
1968 |
Wise Music Group |
20 |
Chamber Orchestra |
Albany TROY-143
Listen on YouTube |
"Its four-movement design is modeled loosely on the Baroque suite, but its musical content is thoroughly Romantic, and generally warm and cheerful in tone." (Fanfare) |
Symphony
No. 1 |
1964-66;
1968 |
Wise Music Group |
35 |
Orchestra |
Naxos
8.559148
Listen on YouTube |
"If there is true late-romantic writing after 1950, perhaps that precarious distinction belongs to Nicolas Flagello. Here is true heart-on-sleeve emotional music, throbbing and crying out, in a personalized tonal and formally traditional language." (Classical Net);
"There is not an ounce of padding in this rigorously constructed piece. Everything is spun out from its opening motive, whose myriad harmonic implications are developed strikingly and seemingly effortlessly." (Fanfare) |
| "Intermezzo" from
Piper of Hamelin |
1970 |
Maelos |
5 |
|
Naxos 8.559148
Listen on YouTube |
"The music is tuneful and straightforward, a miniature tone poem in all but the name. (MusicWeb Intl);
"Conveys the opera's emotional density, ranging through tragedy, grief, and redemptive compassion."(Fanfare) |
Symphony
No. 2,
"Symphony of the Winds" |
1970 |
Maelos |
20 |
Wind Ensemble |
Naxos 8.573060
Listen on YouTube |
"Resolute and stormy, it is dark, sweepingly powerful, and tightly constructed." (Fanfare); "Another highly emotional and often disturbing work...imaginatively and quite daringly uses the colours of his wind band, including a percussive array, to splendid effect." (MusicWeb Intl) |
| Odyssey |
1981 |
Maelos |
10 |
Symphonic Band |
Naxos 8.573060
Listen on YouTube |
"A typically condensed, tightly wrought work of pent-up energy," (Tempo);
"A powerful work that fully exploits all the colors of the wind medium." (Fanfare)
"The mood is fairly gloomy from start to finish, but the music is fascinating." (ARG) |
| SOLO
WITH ORCHESTRA |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.) |
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| Piano
Concerto No. 1 |
1950 |
Maelos |
25 |
|
Naxos 8.559296 Listen on YouTube |
"The finest 'rediscovered' work I've encountered in years... For those who like piano concertos in an unabashedly post-Romantic vein, this will prove a splendid find." (Classical Net);
"Bold, confident writing for the piano is combined with a sureness of hand in the orchestration that is nothing short of remarkable." (MusicWeb Intl);
"It has a forcefulness, a sort of masculine brawniness, that is Flagello's own. And, boy, does it have sweep, intensity, and conviction. It positively throbs with larger-than-life passions and defiant heroism... It also shows off two more of Flagello's key attributes: his careful craftsmanship and structural logic and his gift for memorable tunes, whether long-spanning melodic arches, restlessly unwinding inner voices, or rhythmically driving dances." (ARG) |
| Flute
Concerto Antoniano |
1953 |
Wise Music Group |
25 |
|
Listen on YouTube |
"A worthy contribution, with a first movement cadenza that truly climaxes the material, a contrastive slow movement, and a delightful finale—the music 'goes' and the flute is the perfect instrumental color for such lucidity." (ARG) |
| Piano Concerto No. 2 |
1956 |
Wise Music Group |
25 |
|
Artek
AR-0002-2
Listen on YouTube |
"Gives off a kind of sophisticated sheen and accessibility that might lead a casual listener to think of Hollywood film scores of the l940s. But a closer inspection reveals just how uncompromised and well written this music is—how naturally and compellingly it flows and evolves, all the while using time-tested methods of formal development but in freshly reconceived terms and always avoiding any suggestion of rhetoric or padding." (Fanfare) |
| Violin Concerto |
1956 |
Maelos |
25 |
Orchestrated by A. Sbordoni (2003) |
Artek
AR-0036-2
Listen on YouTube |
"Eplosive, volatility, and an effusive lyricism which seems the utterance of a soul on fire." (Fanfare);
"Combines bravura pyrotechnics, romantic intensity, and carefully unified thematic development... It's hard to imagine any audience not responding to this splendid
concerto, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it taken up by other virtuosos soon."(ARG) |
| Capriccio for Cello &
Orchestra |
1962 |
Maelos |
15 |
|
Phoenix
PHCD-125
Listen on YouTube |
"Despite its title, there is nothing playful about this work;... Flagello has a marked propensity for gloomy moods and tragic emotions... It is virtuosic without being cheap or shallow, there is not a superfluous note, there is not a phrase that doesn't contribute in some
way to the overall meaning of the work." (Fanfare);
"Keen sense of form, the
orchestration is expert, the cello writing is beautifully arranged." (ARG); |
| Piano
Concerto No. 3 |
1962 |
Maelos |
20 |
Orch. by A. Sbordoni (1994) |
Artek
AR-0002-2
Listen on YouTube |
"The music is appealing, propulsive, and very passionate, rising to climaxes of real intensity and excitement... marvelously written for the soloist... contain many
moments of pure magic" (Classics Today);
"Tumultuous incident and almost fatalistic
ebb and flow seem to hint at some overwhelming personal catastrophe-- either
lived through or anticipated and in either case coming to a resolution that leaves
the listener feeling exhausted but gratified." (Fanfare)
"Flagello depicted this entirely tonal work with a wide range of emotions-- conflict, love, agitation and pain... absolutely superb by any possible measure.”"(Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer) |
Concertino for Piano,
Brass, & Timpani |
1963 |
Maelos |
10 |
Piano, Brass, and Timpani |
|
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| Credendum |
1973;
1985 |
Maelos |
15 |
Violin and Orchestra |
Artek
AR-0002-2
Listen on YouTube |
"An elegiac and at times mysterious piece whose rhapsodic fervency achieves solace in a coda of transfiguring beauty and serenity." (ARG);
"Manic brilliance
saying important things." (Fanfare)
"The violin sounds more like 'the voice in the desert... dry from weeping.' This piece strikes me as a great work indeed." (Classical Net) |
| Concerto
Sinfonico |
1985 |
To the Fore |
25 |
Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (or band--trans. by M. Patterson) |
Naxos
8.559296
Listen on YouTube
Naxos 8. 573060
Listen on YouTube |
"This has to be the best piece ever written for saxophone quartet and orchestra" (Classics Today);
"Flagello's writing for the saxophones is imaginative and imparts a more serious and deeper sense to the instrument (Classical Net);
"It's powerful stuff. The quartet act as hortator and participant. There is no sense of separation or commentatory role."
(MusicWeb Intl);
"Patterson's transcription is first-rate... Hearing the saxophone quartet as
a sub-group of the wind ensemble clarifies the counterpoint (of which there is a lot in this work) and points up the intricacies of the interplay between the concertante and ripieno groups. The version with full orchestra sounds more like a concerto, with the soloists set in higher relief against the texture of strings. Again, it is a tough work but full of integrity" (Fanfare) |
| VOICE
AND ORCHESTRA |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.) |
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| The Land |
1954 |
Maelos |
25 |
Six Songs for Low Voice and Chamber Orchestra (Tennyson) |
Naxos 8.112065
Listen on YouTube |
"Flagello's own brand of sophisticated expressiveness...This kind of thing was not the fashionable aesthetic in postwar contemporary classical-music circles... but it's certainly worth revisiting now." (Opera News);
"The music highly descriptive of the texts, and instantly enjoyable" (David's Review Corner) |
| Five Songs |
1955 |
Maelos |
15 |
Five Songs for High Voice and Chamber Orchestra |
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| L'Infinito |
1956 |
Maelos |
3 |
Low Voice and Chamber Orchestra (Leopardi) |
Naxos 8.112065 |
"The masterful L'Infinito, a setting of a poem by Giacomo Leopardi, which packs a wallop in its brief three minutes." (Opera News) |
| She Walks in Beauty |
1957 |
Maelos |
3 |
High Voice and Chamber Orchestra (Byron) |
Phoenix PHCD-125
Listen on YouTube |
"Dedicated to Flagello's beloved mentor Vittorio Giannini, it exhibits the same sort of soaring, lush lyricism characteristic of the elder composer." (Fanfare) |
| The Rainy Day |
1958 |
Maelos |
5 |
High/Low Voice and Chamber Orchestra (Longfellow) |
Artek AR-0036-02
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Dante's
Farewell |
1962 |
Maelos |
15 |
High Voice and Orchestra (Tusiani); orch. A. Sbordoni (2003) |
Naxos 8.559296
Listen on YouTube |
"Flagello builds his scene masterfully, the musical climaxes and falls beautifully placed." (Classical CD Review);
"It has a wonderfully atmospheric start, dark-hued colours and a beguiling solo violin." (MusicWeb Intl);
"Flagello's composition is especially effective in the unforced, organic way the vocal line grows out of and finally subsides back into the evocative, slowly swaying music" (ARG) |
| La Bella Aurora |
|
Maelos |
3 |
High Voice and Chamber Orchestra (Tasso) |
Sony Classics SNK-66309
Listen on YouTube |
|
| An
Island in the Moon |
1964 |
Maelos |
15 |
High Voice and Chamber Orchestra (Blake) |
|
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| Contemplazioni
di Michelangelo |
1964 |
Maelos |
25 |
Four Sonnets for High Voice and Orchestra |
Phoenix PHCD-125
Listen on YouTube |
"If this is not great music, we will gladly turn in our typewriter and quit." (The New Records);
"Flagello has created inspired pages, with a grand spirit, solid formal structure, and an elaborate and interesting harmonic fabric." (El Comercio [Lima]);
"This is unquestionably great music, serious in tone and with a grandly impassioned rhetoric... The vocal writing is operatic in scope, the orchestration masterful in its richness and power... displays an unequivocal confidence in its expressive aims" (Fanfare) |
| Remembrance |
1971 |
Maelos |
10 |
Medium Voice, Flute, and
String Quartet (or Stg. Orchestra) (E. Bronte) |
Phoenix PHCD-125
Listen on YouTube |
"Evokes a gothic atmosphere haunted by despair and resignation as it expresses a never-forgotten sorrow over the loss years earlier of an irreplaceable love" (Fanfare) |
| Ruth's Aria |
1973 |
Maelos |
3 |
High Voice and Orchestra (Flagello); orch. A. Sbordoni |
Artek AR-0036-2
Listen on YouTube |
|
| The Brook |
1978 |
Maelos |
3 |
Medium-High Voice and Orchestra (Tennyson); orch. A. Sbordoni |
Artek AR-0036-2
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Polo I and II |
1979-80 |
Maelos |
5 |
High Voice (orch. A. Sbordoni) |
Artek AR-0036-2
Listen on YouTube
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Canto |
1978 |
Maelos |
5 |
High Voice and Orchestra (Flagello); orch. A. Sbordoni |
Artek AR-0036-02
Listen on YouTube |
|
| VOICE AND PIANO |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.)
|
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| The Sledge Bells |
1950 |
Maelos |
2 |
Medium Voice (Poe) |
|
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| The Land |
1954 |
Maelos |
25 |
Six Songs (Low Voice, Tennyson) |
|
|
| L'Infinito |
1956 |
Maelos |
3 |
Low Voice (Leopardi) |
|
|
| She Walks in Beauty |
1957 |
Maelos |
3 |
High Voice (Byron) |
|
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| The
Rainy Day |
1958 |
Maelos |
5 |
High/Low Voice (Longfellow) |
|
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| La Bella Aurora |
|
Maelos |
3 |
High Voice (Tasso) |
|
|
| An
Island in the Moon |
1964 |
Maelos |
15 |
Six Songs; High Voice (Blake) |
|
|
| Contemplazioni
di Michelangelo |
1964 |
Maelos |
25 |
Four Sonnets; High Voice |
|
|
| Ruth's Aria |
1973 |
Maelos |
3 |
Medium-High Voice (Flagello) |
|
|
| Sonnet of Tennyson |
1973 |
Maelos |
3
|
Medium-High Voice |
|
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| Per l'Epifania |
1973 |
Maelos |
2 |
Medium-High
Voice (Flagello) |
|
|
| Song for a Wedding |
1974 |
Maelos |
2 |
Medium-High Voice |
|
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| Notturno |
1975 |
Maelos |
2 |
High Voice (Ceccardi) |
|
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| The Brook |
1978 |
Maelos |
3 |
Medium-Voice (Tennyson) |
|
|
| Polo I |
1979 |
Maelos |
2 |
High Voice |
|
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| La Notte Scende |
1980 |
Maelos |
2 |
High
Voice (Flagello) |
|
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| Polo II |
1980 |
Maelos |
2 |
High Voice |
|
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| Le Fin |
1982 |
Maelos |
2 |
Medium Voice (Bourget) |
|
|
| Quattro
Amori |
1983 |
Maelos |
15 |
Four Songs; Medium Voice (Flagello) |
|
|
| Pippa's Song |
1983 |
Maelos |
2 |
Medium Voice (Browning) |
|
|
| PIANO |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.)
|
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| Etude: Homage to Chopin |
|
Maelos |
3 |
Advanced |
Impromptu Classics IC-080601
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Three
Dances |
1945 |
Maelos |
10 |
Intermediate |
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Two Waltzes |
1953 |
Maelos |
5 |
Intermediate |
Phoenix PHCD143
Listen on YouTube
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Three
Episodes |
1957 |
Maelos |
5 |
Easy-Intermediate |
Premier PRCD-1014
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Symphonic Waltzes |
1958 |
Maelos |
15 |
Advanced; Piano and Percussion Ensemble |
Citadel CTD-88115
Listen on YouTube |
"Uncharacteristic in their deliberate evocation of turn-of-the-century Paris, although the composer's distinctive fingerprints are everywhere evident to those familiar with
them" (Fanfare) |
| Divertimento |
1960 |
Steve Weiss Music |
15 |
Piano and Percussion Ensemble |
Premier PRCD-1014 |
"Asserts an edgy, pugnacious virility, propelled forward by strongly-accented rhythmic irregularities. This spirit pervades the entire Divertimento, underlying the
work's ominous, darkly sinister slow movement as well." (Fanfare) |
| Prelude,
Ostinato, and Fugue |
1960 |
Maelos |
10 |
Advanced |
Albany TROY-234
Listen on YouTube |
"Reveals many facets of Flagello's creative personality: a dark, restless urgency in the angular Prelude, a melancholy tenderness that builds to a stormy climax in the Ostinato, and a propulsive vigor in the Fugue." (Fanfare) |
| Piano Sonata |
1962 |
Maelos |
15-20 |
Advanced |
Albany TROY-234
Phoenix PHCD-143
Listen on YouTube |
"The work may be said to epitomize the virtuosic romantic piano sonata as a vehicle for intense personal emotion... a concentrated, tightly structured work, based entirely on the motivic elements heard at the beginning of the work." (Fanfare);
"Full-blooded, virtuosic, Romantic music, although it manages to retain a modern harmonic outlook. The slow movement in particular is a killer. A barcarolle that works against typ--most barcarolles are serene--it essentially howls from the depths... I'd put it up there with the Barber piano sonata, a classic of American repertoire." (Classical Net) |
| Electra |
1966 |
Steve Weiss Music |
20 |
Advanced; Percussion Ensemble w/ Harp, Celesta |
Premier PRCD-1014 |
"Essentially a concerto for piano and percussion orchestra... Not only is the piano part truly virtuosic, but the percussion ensemble is more deeply integrated into the musical substance, making for a powerful, densely-textured, and, at times, orgiastic work." (Fanfare) |
| Petits Pastels |
1966 |
Maelos |
7 |
Eight Easy Pieces |
|
|
Concertino for Piano,
Brass, & Timpani |
1963 |
Maelos |
10 |
Piano, Brass, and Timpani |
|
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| CHORUS |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.)
|
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| Virtue |
1961 |
Maelos |
5 |
SATB a capella (George Herbert) |
|
|
| Tu
Es Sacerdos |
1963 |
Maelos |
5 |
SATB, Organ |
|
|
| Laughing
Song |
1966 |
Maelos |
2 |
Children's Chorus (Blake) |
|
|
| The
Arrow and the Song |
1966 |
Maelos |
5 |
SATB with Piano or Harp (Longfellow) |
|
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| CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.)
|
Time |
Remarks |
Recording |
|
| Tristis est Anima Mea |
1959 |
Maelos |
10 |
SATB, Orchestra |
|
|
| Te
Deum for All Mankind |
1962;
1967 |
Carl Fischer |
15 |
SATB with Orchestra (Liturg., Whittier) |
|
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| Passion of Martin Luther King (Oratorio) |
1953;
1968;
1973 |
Lucks Music |
35 |
Bass-Baritone, SATB, Orchestra |
Naxos 8.112065
Listen on YouTube
|
"The orchestration is sumptuous and virile with no stinting on the climaxes, and the choral writing is gorgeous, with especially exquisite part-writing in the Cor Jesu and the Stabat Mater... In truth, despite the extravagant grandeur of the music, this is a very personal,
almost mystical, interpretation of Martin Luther King, rather than a work of social
consciousness." (Fanfare)
"Filled with action and an accommodating dramaticism, it is an
eminently 'public' work. This was proven by the standing ovation that greeted the
conclusion of the performance... As contemporary as it is, this 'Passion' adopts a
conventional and simple language that speaks directly to the listener... With its easily
accessible melodic substance, the work makes a singularly striking impact." (Le Soleil
[Quebec])
"The piece is not all flash, though: an unexpectedly tender setting of the phrase
'Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord' brings a lump to one's throat, and
the 'Stabat Mater' movement is deeply poignant. The vocal writing is unfailingly lyrical."
(Opera News) |
| CHAMBER MUSIC FOR WINDS |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.)
|
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| Chorale
and Episode |
1944 |
Maelos |
5 |
Brass Dectet |
|
|
| Lyra |
1945 |
Maelos |
3 |
Brass Sextet |
|
|
| Three Episodes |
1957 |
Maelos |
5 |
Woodwind Quintet (trans. Sbordoni) |
|
|
| Burlesca |
1961 |
Maelos |
10 |
Flute and Guitar |
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Valse Noire |
1964 |
To the Fore |
5 |
Saxophone Quartet (trans. W. Simmons) |
Naxos 8.573060
Listen on YouTube
|
"It is most idiomatically transcribed, and the piece has a vitality and energy that is most appealing. Saxophone quartets should certainly investigate this: There are many
transcriptions that I've heard for this combination of instruments that do not work nearly
as well as this one." (Fanfare) |
| Philos |
1969 |
Maelos |
10 |
Brass Quintet |
|
|
| Ricercare |
1971 |
Maelos |
7 |
19 Brass and Percussion |
|
|
| Prisma |
1974 |
Maelos |
3 |
Horn Septet |
|
|
| Furanna |
1978 |
Maelos |
3 |
Flute Solo |
Listen on YouTube |
|
| Diptych |
1979 |
Maelos |
7 |
Brass Trio |
|
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| CHAMBER
MUSIC FOR STRINGS |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.) |
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| Notturno
Romano |
|
Maelos |
5 |
String Quartet (or String Orchestra) |
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| Sonata for Violin & Piano |
1963 |
Maelos |
15 |
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Albany TROY-234
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"A well-constructed, highly romantic work in three concise movements, ranging from a dark, impassioned dialogue for the two instruments to a warmly lyrical quasi recitativo to a humoresque-tarantella of almost diabolical brilliance... [The performance] made the strongest of impressions for his sonata, which can be expected to be added to the general repertory." (NY Times) |
| Suite for Harp and String Trio |
1965 |
Maelos |
10 |
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Albany TROY-234
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"Its blend of pleasant tunes, piquant timbral combinations, and assured craft fills three shortments quite nicely" (ARG) |
| Declamation |
1967 |
Maelos |
10 |
Violin and Piano |
Albany TROY-234
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| Nocturne |
1969 |
Maelos |
5 |
Violin and Piano |
Albany TROY-234
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| Remembrance |
1971 |
Maelos |
10 |
Medium Voice, Flute, and String Quartet (E. Bronte) |
Phoenix PHCD-125
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"Evokes a gothic atmosphere haunted by despair and resignation as it expresses a never-forgotten sorrow over the loss years earlier of an irreplaceable love" (Fanfare) |
| Credendum |
1973 |
Maelos |
15 |
Violin and Piano |
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"An elegiac and at times mysterious piece whose rhapsodic fervency achieves solace in a coda of transfiguring beauty and serenity." (ARG);
"Manic brilliance saying important things." (Fanfare)
"The violin sounds more like 'the voice in the desert...dry from weeping.' This piece strikes me as a great work indeed." (Classical Net) |
| MUSIC FOR HARP |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.)
|
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| Sonata |
1961 |
Maelos |
15 |
|
BIS CD-319
Sono Luminus 92106
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"Flagello's Sonata is dramatic and serious in tone overall, although leavened by a lovely, melancholy waltz-like slow movement, and a briskly exuberant finale." (Fanfare) |
| Berceuse |
1964 |
Maelos |
3 |
Harp |
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| Marionettes |
1968 |
Maelos |
10 |
Harp |
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| MUSIC FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS |
| Title |
Year |
Publisher
(publisher info.)
|
Duration |
Remarks |
Recording |
Critics' Comments |
| Introduction
and Scherzo |
1964 |
Maelos |
5 |
Accordion |
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| Morceau
Laurie |
1980 |
Maelos |
3 |
Guitar |
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