American Triad Daniel Glover, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra & John McLaughlin Williams

• Felix Borowski ((1872 - 1956): Piano Concerto in D Minor:
• 1 Borowski: Piano Concerto in D Minor: I. Moderato maestoso – Animato 08:58
• 2 Borowski: Piano Concerto in D Minor: II. Andante 06:58
• 3 Borowski: Piano Concerto in D Minor: III. (attacca) Allegro con fuoco 07:50
• Beryl Rubinstein (1898 - 1952): Piano Concerto in C Major:
• 4 Rubinstein: Piano Concerto in C Major: I. Allegro 15:37
• 5 Rubinstein: Piano Concerto in C Major: II. Andante tranquillo 08:50
• 6 Rubinstein: Piano Concerto in C Major: III. Allegro con spirit 09:21
• Plainte de Pierrot:
• 7 Rubinstein: Plainte de Pierrot 03:48
• Scherzo Serenade:
• 8 Rubinstein: Scherzo Serenade 03:17
• Felix Borowski: Scherzo fantasque, B. 78:
• 9 Borowski: Scherzo fantasque, B. 78 10:14
• Total Runtime 01:14:53

Info for American Triad

Reference Recordings proudly presents American Triad, honoring the music of three composers whose intertwined relationship was one of respect, admiration and camaraderie. The "triad" is Felix Borowski, Ernest Bloch and Beryl Rubinstein. Borowski and Bloch immigrated to the United States and became citizens, while Rubinstein was born in Athens, Georgia. Each composer has a distinctive credo and style, and each wrote major works for piano and orchestra which are presented on this album of rarely heard masterpieces – four of which receive their first commercial recordings.

Daniel Glover has performed in 42 states and in 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America and the Caribbean. He holds a master's degree from the Juilliard School, and trained with luminaries including Thomas LaRatta, Nancy Bachus, Jerome Lowenthal, Abbey Simon and Eugene List. He has numerous competition awards including first prize in the prestigious Liederkranz Competition in 1990. Mr. Glover has served on the faculties of New York University, University of the Virgin Islands, University of San Francisco, Notre Dame de Namur University and the Summer Piano Workshop of Kent State University. He has recorded eleven previous albums. He resides in San Francisco and frequently performs locally. The San Francisco Classical Voice remarked, "The elegance and civility of Glover's approach were musically unimpeachable....Dazzling… a flawless sense of Lisztian style incorporating its emotional depth."

This album was recorded March 31–April 4, 2025 with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, in beautiful and historic Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius, Lithuania. The LNSO, founded in 1940, performs around 50 concerts in Lithuania and abroad every year. It performs frequently in recordings, participates in international festivals, premieres works by Lithuanian composers, and presents music in Euroradio live broadcasts. It was conducted by the GRAMMY® Award­-winning American orchestral conductor and multi­-GRAMMY®­-nominated violinist, John McLaughlin Williams.

This release was recorded and mastered by the superb engineering team of Baltic Mobile Recordings: Vilius Keras and Aleksandra Keriene. It was produced by the GRAMMY®-­winning producing team: Victor Ledin and Marina A. Ledin.

John McLaughlin Williams, conductor & violin
Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Glover, piano

Daniel Glover
has performed in 42 states and 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and the Caribbean.

He holds a master’s degree from New York’s Juilliard School, where he attended as a scholarship student. Among his numerous competition awards is first prize in the prestigious LiederkranzCompetition in 1990.

Mr. Glover has trained with such luminaries as Eugene List, Abbey Simon, Jerome Lowenthal, Nancy Bachus and Thomas LaRatta.

The San Francisco Classical Voice remarked, “Brilliant, tender, whimsical, sparkling…Glover brought everything together into a well-balanced, evenly measured medium.” “The elegance and civility of Glover’s approach were musically unimpeachable.” “Dazzling…golly can he play! I kept expecting smoke to emerge from the interior of the instrument…a flawless sense of Lisztian style incorporating its emotional depth.”

Mr. Glover has recorded eight CDs on the DG2 label, including Franz Liszt, The Profound and the Profane (2008), Spanish Impressions (2006), Romantic Russian Encores (2005), and a recording of live performances of works for piano and orchestra by Mozart, Strauss, and Prokofiev (2005). Previous recordings include the complete solo piano music by Ravel (2003), the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano with New York violinist Matthew Reichert (2001), Russian Romantics (2000), and an all-Chopin concert recorded live in 1999.

John McLaughlin Williams
Grammy Award-winning Conductor John McLaughlin Williams has been critically acclaimed for his outstanding interpretive abilities and engaging podium presence. Equally at home in the standard literature and the masterworks of American composers, it was with the release of his critically praised recordings on the Naxos label that his conducting first attracted international attention. For Naxos’ celebrated “American Classics” series, Williams worked with the National Symphony and Radio Orchestras of Ukraine on world-premiere recordings of orchestral works by composers both well-known and neglected by history. He has been praised in international publications, among them Fanfare, Gramophone, Classic FM, International Record Review, American Record Guide, and the French recording journal Diapason. His recordings appear on labels such as Naxos, TNC, Artek, Cambria, and Afka.

In 2007 Williams was awarded a Grammy for the TNC recording of Messiaen’s L’Oiseau Exotiques with Angelin Chang and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Additional recognition came in 2009 and 2011 when he was awarded further Grammy nominations for his conducting in recordings of concerti by Ernest Bloch and Benjamin Lees with violinist Elmar Oliveira, and for “Quincy Porter: Complete Viola Works”. He is also a recipient of the Geraldine C. & Emory M. Ford Award for American Conductors.

Williams has conducted both nationally and internationally for such orchestras as the Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Classic FM Orchestra (Bulgaria), Chicago Sinfonietta, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, The Britt Festival, and many others. In the popular realm, he conducted for R&B superstars Al Jarreau, Brian McKnight, The Winans, Terrence Blanchard, B Slade, as well as the celebrated Celtic band Colcannon, among others. Williams also conducted for televised events on FOX and UPN, while his composition/arrangement credits include the soundtrack to Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington (History Channel documentary starring Richard Dreyfuss), alongside Michael Kamen (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard), and arranging, as well as orchestrating the National Song of the Cayman Islands (“Beloved Isle Cayman”) for the official use of the nation’s government.

Williams is also a virtuoso violin soloist, pianist, and chamber musician. He began violin studies at age 10 in a Washington, D.C. public school. At age 14 he appeared as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, South Carolina Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra and others. Williams served as Concertmaster of the Virginia Symphony and was a member of the Houston Symphony. As guest concertmaster he has appeared with the Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Pennsylvania Ballet, the Opera Company of North Carolina, and the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and was Assistant Concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.

Booklet for American Triad