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.

Friday, February 28, 2014

Michael Byron, Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl

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There is music that tries to include everything. There is music that through a kind of mental erasure, eliminates things, like a stone blo...

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Morton Feldman, Patterns in a Chromatic Field, Music for Cello, Marco & Giancarlo Simonacci

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In an interview made available in the later '60s, on a now long-unavailable German anthology of the New York school of composers, Mort...

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Ronn McFarlane & Mindy Rosenfeld, Nine Notes that Shook the World

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If you love the sound of early music played by flute and lute, Ronn McFarlane & Mindy Rosenfeld's Nine Notes that Shook the World ...

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Eleni Karaindrou, Medea

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Anyone familiar with the development of modern music from the '70s on knows something of the arrival of the "ECM Sound", tha...

Monday, February 24, 2014

Voice of the People, Gabriela Lena Frank, Dmitri Shostakovich, Shem Guibbory, etc.

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When you encounter a CD release that makes you pause, that grows majestically before your ears the more you listen, you go away from it gl...

Friday, February 21, 2014

Marcus Blunt, Aspirations, Piano Music, Murray McLachlan

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Today's CD of piano music seems like a new age item if you look at the cover. It isn't. It is a collection of selected piano works...

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Chris Wild, Ensemble Dal Niente, Abhanden

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There are recordings that affirm. One of them is Abhanden (Navona 5940), a compendium of six contemporary modern compositions played by C...

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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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