Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Roussel, Piano Music 1, Sonatine, The Sandman, Trois Pieces, Jean-Pierre Armengaud

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Sometimes the world appears as a field of vision, a gestalt whole, and looking at it throughout your life there are details that only emer...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Kara Karayev, The Seven Beauties, The Path of Thunder (Ballet Suites), Royal Philharmonic, Dmitry Yablonsky

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The end of the Soviet Union and the reorganization of Russia and its formerly or continuing Federated States has meant that the "West...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Alvin Lucier, Still and Moving Lines, Decibel

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Alvin Lucier somehow manages to come up with compositions that have such a personal singleness of purpose that they may exasperate you at ...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Gheorghe Costinescu, An Evolving Cycle, Stephen Gosling

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Gheorghe Costinescu (b 1934), a composer we should know more of than we do, was and is a primary modernist who earned an MA in Composition...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Mark Padmore, Nicholas Daniel, Britten Sinfonia and Jacqueline Shave, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ten Blake Songs, On Wenlock Edge, Jonathan Dove, The End, Peter Warlock, The Curlew

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This somewhat unusual release (Harmonia Mundi 807566) features tenor Mark Padmore in a series of song settings by 20th and 21st century En...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Heinavanker, Songs of Olden Times, Estonian Folk Hymns and Runic Songs

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When you hear a body of music previously unknown to you and the performances are very good, it's sometimes something like meeting up w...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Palestrina, Volume 4, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

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I tend to associate cold weather with early vocal music, the baroque especially. Of course there is no one season for it, but it warms my ...