Reviews

John Rockwell

John Rockwell

John Rockwell is a music critic, editor, and dance critic. He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard, the University of Munich, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in German culture....

 wrote in the New York Times "...it can be flatly said that the best performance (and the most unusually interesting piece, too) was Mr. Hegyi's account of Barber's one-movement symphony, which had its premiere in 1936, was revised in 1944 and championed by Artur Rodzinski and Bruno Walter. The score blends considerable passion with Barber's wonderfully characteristic arching lyricism. Mr. Hegyi, who has a good deal of experience with 20th-century American music, given the Albany Symphony's venturesome commitment to that cause, played it with a sure technical command that never got in the way of expressivity."

Discography

• Carpenter/Hadley/Mason/Porter, New World Records
  New World Records
  New World Records is a record label based in New York City specialising in American music. The label was established in 1975 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant to produce a 100 disc anthology covering 200 years of American music....
  
  , Albany Symphony Orchestra, conductor, Julius Hegyi, 1984
• Albany Symphony Orchestra-Trimble/Laderman, Composers Recordings, Inc.
  Composers Recordings, Inc.
  Composers Recordings, Inc. was an American record label dedicated to the recording of contemporary classical music by American composers. It was founded in 1954 by Otto Luening, Douglas Moore, and Oliver Daniel, and based in New York City....
  
  , Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi, conductor, 1985
• Parker, Horatio/Chadwick, George W., New World Records, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi, conductor, 1986