CD review: young Icelandic composer's organic music; Milhaud's weighty 'Orestie'

Nothing better sums up the so-called crisis of classical music than the state of so-called classical recording. We lament the end of the recording industry as we knew it -- an industry that could once afford to record big orchestras and actually make money -- and yet there are more recordings coming out than ever before. As recordings become less a way to generate revenue and more a way to promote an identity, they seem more varied, more personal and generally better, although the institutions t...