If I even have maybe made a bit too much of Mr. Gray’s heritage, rest assured that I only introduced it up as a result of I felt that he would have an affinity for this music, just as Czech or Hungarian conductors typically have the right feel for their native composers. I would most assuredly like to hear to Gray conduct different works, hopefully some modern ones…but then once more, I’m at all times hoping that conductors nowadays would program more trendy music! For those that don’t have a minimal of two of the three works introduced right here, I would say it’s a should CD to have. Walker’s Lyric for Strings was, like Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, initially the movement of a string quartet. Written in 1946 when Walker was still a graduate pupil at the Curtis Institute of Music, he later reworked it for a full …