Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Andrew Staniland, Talking Down the Tiger, and Other Works for Solo Instruments and Electronics

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Andrew Staniland is a young Canadian composer of promise. His Talking Down the Tiger (Naxos 8.573428) presents five works for solo instru...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Ibert, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, etc., The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adriano

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Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) is perhaps best known for his "Escales," but there is quite a bit more music from him, much of which d...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Lukas Foss, Complete Symphonies, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose

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By the time I became a bonafide, dedicated follower of new classical and avant garde music, that is in the early '70s, Lukas Foss (192...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Dutilleux, Metaboles, L'Arbre des Songes, Symphony No. 2, Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot

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Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) is often enough presented as a modern-day impressionist, a successor to Debussy and Ravel. That is doubtless t...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

John McCabe, Piano Music

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The late John McCabe (1939-2015), British composer, pianist and conductor, was a uniquely talented exponent of modern classical music, wri...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Krzysztof Meyer, Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet

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One of the huge benefits of doing my music blogs is of course the chance to discover musical voices new to me and to pass that news along ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Arvo Part, Musica Selecta, A Sequence by Manfred Eicher

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Some collaborations seem in retrospect inevitable. But at the time of the inception there was nothing that somehow guaranteed it or assure...