Friday, April 28, 2017

Michael Byron, The Celebration

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Post-modern minimalism can go a number of ways these days. It seems to me that at times works can be guilty of form-formulaics at the expe...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Dutilleux, Symphony No. 2 "Le Double," Orchestre National de Lille, Darrell Ang

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If I could come up with only one word for Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) and his music, it might be lasting. Here in the present we experienc...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Josquin du pres, Josquin Masses, Di dadi, Une mousse de Biscaye, the Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips

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The irreplaceable sublimity of Josquin du pres (c. 1440-1521) in the polyphonic Mass setting is something one must live with to truly appr...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

The Crossing, International Contemporary Ensemble, Donald Nally, Seven Responses

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Donald Nally, the choral ensemble the Crossing and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) present seven contemporary modern works r...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Egidio Romualdo Duni, Les Deux Chasseurs et la Laitiere, Accademia dell'Arcadia, Roberto Balconi

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Today's recording serves to remind us once again that the annals of baroque and classical composers are filled with now unfamiliar nam...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Paul Reale, CME Presents Piano Celebration Volume 2, Music for 2 Pianos and Piano 4-Hands

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The realm of solo piano music has been especially fruitful in the modern era. The movement from Debussy, Ravel and Satie to the presen...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Versus, Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 2, Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1, Irena Portenko, Volodymyr Sirenko, Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra

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My old composition professor reacted to my expression of admiration for Prokofiev with the thought that he was compromisingly derivative o...