Friday, August 30, 2013

Laurent Petitgirard, The Little Prince, A Ballet

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There are some works that come at me in ways I am not always prepared for. French composer Laurent Petitgirard's ballet The Little Pri...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Dimitri Voudouris, Electro-Acoustic Music

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Greek-born Dimitri Voudouris (b 1961) writes electro-acoustic music in the grand manner. Like Xenakis and Stockhausen before him, he favor...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Bartlomiej Pekiel, The Sixteen

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It has been said of some artists that they could sing the phone book (for those of you who remember what that is) and still sound great. I...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Bartok, Violin Concertos 1 & 2, Isabelle Faust, Swedish Radio Symphony

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Bartok's Second Violin Concerto is a favorite with music lovers. His First is less well known. It was lost and only rediscovered after...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Ligeti String Quartets, Keller Quartett

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Ligeti's String Quartets are capstone works of the '50s-'60s. They epitomise both the advances and the creative power of new m...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Stile Antico, The Phoenix Rising

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The early is in the late, the late in the early. To hear Stile Antico's vocal performances of English Tudor Church music is to hear so...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

ZOFO, Mosh Pit, One Piano Four Hands

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The sound of music for two pianos is different than that of music for one piano and four hands. It means of course that actual unisons are...