Monday, April 19, 2021

What is the Modern Now, Really?

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I have been waking up a little ahead of my mentally scheduled time lately. And so I lay in bed and wait for time to happen. Sometimes I half...

Prokofiev By Arrangement, Music for the Stage and Keyboard Arranged for Violin and Piano, Yuri Kalnits, Yulia Chaplina

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  If you love Prokofiev you will want to consider today's album, Prokofiev By Arrangement (Toccata Classics TOCC 0135). It is aptly subt...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Violeta Vicci, Mirror Images, Works for Solo Violin and Viola

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  The present day listener, now no doubt as ever, ideally should habitually shake off the dust and cobwebs of preconceived notions of what t...
Friday, April 9, 2021

Sunleif Rasmussen, Territorial Songs, Works for Recorder

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  The recorder as it is constructed favors of course diatonic intervallic relationships as opposed to the chromatic execution that Modern mu...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

Yoko Hirota, Small is Beautiful, Minature Piano Pieces

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  The intimacy of the solo piano work lends itself to the Modern art of the miniature, as something not attempting a grand design of high dr...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Duo Shu, Yi-Wen Zhang, Nanyi Qiang, Play Faure, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Dvorak, Gao and Bartok

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  Great music is a matter of  the experiencing, of course. So in the course of one's musical life one ideally remains open to whatever m...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Orlando Jacinto Garcia, String Quartets 1-3, Amernet String Quartet

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  Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia writes music that aims to suspend time. This according to the liner notes on the recent off...