MARVIN ROSEN PLAYING MUSIC OF ALAN HOVHANESS  

"This is the most important music of my life. I want very much to share it with audiences whenever I can. It is wonderful music that puts the listener into another world."
- Marvin Rosen

"It is a delight to hear Fred the Cat in this fluent performace and it shares the disc with ten other works (including five premier recordings) that are similarly delightful."
- The Washington Post

Click here to read Rob Barnett's review of Fred the Cat on Classical Music Web.










"...The spiritual feeling of the music combined with the memorable melodic material makes the works of this Massachusetts-born composer something very special. It is accessible music tha thas been composed with the heart... Many more live performances are needed. Perhaps when these happen... more people will be aware of his genius"
- Marvin Rosen

Visions includes excerpts from five different compact discs issued by Koch International Classics. Four of these are all-Hovhaness discs released within a two-year period.





"Overtones of mystic contemplation, exotic flavors of India and the Middle East, shades of the European Middle Ages, and intriguing visions of fantasy landscapes inform these 15 piano compositions of Alan Havhaness. Pianist Marvin Rosen...plays with affection as well as fine technique..."
- The Washington Post

"Marvin Rosen's commitment to and enthusiasm for this very exceptional music cannot for a moment be doubted."
- Tempo (British music magazine)

"It's easy to recommend this disc to Hovhaness fans, who are legion, and others looking for modest, mildly exotic mood music."
- Fanfare Magazine

Click here to read Rob Barnett's review of Vision of a Starry Night on Classical Music Web.

Radio program " CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES " hosted by Marvin Rosen on WPRB 103.3FM - Princeton, NJ, has supported the music of Alan Hovhaness from its beginning.

On the day after the death of Alan Hovhaness, Marvin Rosen wrote a special memorial tribute:
IN MEMORY OF ALAN HOVHANESS - 1911 - 2000.

Also presented on June 27, 2000 was a special 5 hour radio program featuring the music of Alan Hovhaness :
06-27-2000 - (HOVHANESS MEMORIAL TRIBUTE)

As well 5 hours Memorial Tribute at 5th Anniversary of composers death:
06-22-2005 - THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF AMERICAN COMPOSER ALAN HOVHANESS - MEMORIAL TRIBUTE


Every year the composers birthday is celebrated with a special program devoted to his works between first & second week of March.
See links below :
03-15-2005 - 2005 BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
03-01-2004 - 2004 BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
03-05-2003 - 2003 BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE - A COLLECTORS HOVHANESS - only LPs recording never released on CDs
03-05-2002 - 2002 BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE


To find more about Alan Hovhaness go to:
ALAN HOVHANESS - most comprehensive website created by a fan of the Composer.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE MUSIC OF ALAN HOVHANESS ON CD - by Eric Kunze
ALAN HOVHANESS - A composer for our time - by Frank Perry

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