Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Gheorghe Costinescu, Jubilus & Pantomime, DVD

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Gheorghe Costinescu, Romaninian born-and-bred, student of Messiaen and Stockhausen, Berio, Ussachevsky and Chou Wen-chung, New York resid...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Concertos, Svedlund, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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A hot Monday morning in the season and we return to the corpus of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's works for a fine disk of Concertos (Chandos...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Ola Gjeilo, Northern Lights, Choral Works, Phoenix Chorale

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We talked about Ola Gjeilo's piano improvisation disk recently on these pages (see below). Now we backtrack to an earlier disk called...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Marty Regan, Magic Mirror, Selected Works for Japanese Instruments, Vol. Two

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The "East meets West" idea has been with us for ages, of course, but in music it is not the norm. A real interpenetration of mu...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Scott Miller, Pat O'Keefe, Willful Devices

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We reviewed something by Scott Miller several days ago here (see index). Today, another. It's Scott on computer-interactive live elec...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen, Hirundo Maris, Chants du Sud et du Nord

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Arianna Savall made a reputation as the vibrant singer with the early music ensemble led by Rolf Lislevand, on Nuove musiche . She teams ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Heiner Goebbels, Stifters Dinge

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The recording today does not fit in easily with expections. Heiner Goebbels for his Stifters Dinge (ECM New Series B0016967-02) had five...