Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

Modern classical and avant garde concert music of the 20th and 21st centuries forms the primary focus of this blog. It is hoped that through the discussions a picture will emerge of modern music, its heritage, and what it means for us.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Paul Richards, Fables, Forms and Fears

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Paul Richards is a younger composer (b 1969) (younger than I am anyway) and judging by his CD Fables, Forms and Fears (Meyer Media MMO70...

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

McCormick Percussion Group, Concerti for Strings with Percussion Orchestra

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Works for a solo string player and percussion orchestra are hardly a standard commodity in the concert world. The McCormick Percussion Or...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Alejandro Rutty, The Conscious Sleepwalker

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Alejandro Rutty's disk of new music coming out of the tango, The Conscious Sleepwalker (Navona 5870) brings on some fascinating and ...

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Nick Vasallo, Monuments Emerge

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Here we have a fascinating collection of compositions by Nick Vasallo, Monuments Emerge (Innova 821), covering the period between 2007-2...

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Behzod Abduraimov, Prokofiev Sonata No. 6, Liszt, Saint-Saens

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Piano recital disks can go a number of ways. The key is "recital." This generally means that it is first and foremost the piani...

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Robert Schumann, Piano Quintet, Op. 44, Piano Quartet, Op. 47, Alexander Melnikov and the Jerusalem Quartet

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Robert Schumann was a gifted composer who did his best music at intermittent periods of his career. His was not the grand Beethovenian pr...

Monday, May 21, 2012

Andreas Staier, Beethoven, Diabelli Variations

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The time length of a CD can allow for things that generally would not be done during the LP era. A good case in hand is Andreas Staier...

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Grego Applegate Edwards: Cape May, New Jersey, United States; I am a life-long writer, musician, composer and editor. I wrote for Cadence for many years, a periodical covering jazz and improv music. My combined Blogspot blogs (as listed in the links) now cover well over 3,000 recordings in review. It's been a labor of love. The music is chosen because I like it, for the most part, so you won't find a great deal of nastiness here. I have no affiliations and gain nothing from liking what I do, so that makes me somewhat impartial. I do happen to like a set of certain musics done well, so it's not everything released that gets coverage on these blogs. I went to music and higher education schools and got degrees. It changed my life and gave me the ability to think and write better. I've studied with master musicians, too. The benefits I gained from them are invaluable. I appreciate my readers. You are why I write these reviews. I hope the joy of music enriches your life like it does mine. Thank you. And thank you to all the artists that make it possible.

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