Monday, January 30, 2017

Mieczyslav Weinberg, Chamber Symphonies, Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

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The remarkable surgency of the music of Mieczyslav Weinberg (1919-1996) continues very encouragingly. Today we have an exceptional 2-CD se...
Friday, January 27, 2017

C.P.E. Bach, Organ Sonatas, Iain Quinn

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If Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music was the sound of God, C.P.E.Bach's was more properly the sound of humanity. The fugues a...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Adam Schoenberg, American Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern

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Is Adam Schoenberg the American Sibelius? Maybe. I haven't heard such ravishingly beautiful, unabashed orchestral lyricism since the ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Shostakovich, Violin Concertos 1 & 2, Frank Peter Zimmermann, NDR Elbphilharmonic Orchester, Alan Gilbert

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Some or many of the greatest composers, modern or otherwise, have left us a legacy via a significant body of works, numerous enough that...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Steve Reich, Double Sextet / Radio Rewrite, Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman

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Here we have another nice one to celebrate Steve Reich's 80th birthday year, namely Ensemble Signal's personal take on two Reich p...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Debussy, Four-Hand Piano Music 2, Jean-Pierre Armengaud, Olivier Chauzu

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The world is still reeling thanks to the brilliance of Debussy (1862-1918) (and for that matter, Ravel). He (they) made a decisive step aw...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Garrido-Lecca, Peruvian Suite, Norwegian Radio Sym, Ft Worth Sym Orch, Miguel Harth-Bedoya

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Living Peruvian composers are not well-known to me, so when a volume of orchestral music by Celso Garrido-Lecca (b. 1926) came out lately,...