Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Magdalena Hoffman, Nightscapes for Harp

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An excellent harpist is not so much a common thing as a treasure. So as I listen again to Magdalena Hoffman and her album Nightscapes for Ha...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Nick Vasallo, Apophany

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  It is probably true that historical forces at work in any given time  period can be either more or less auspicious for creators of music, ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

French Connections, Jonathan Rhodes Lee, Harpsichord Music by Louis Couperin, Francois Couperin, Antoine Forqueray

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  If you want to bring a smile to my face, send me some music from the French Baroque. As I remarked on my FB wall the other day, at its bes...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Samuel Adams, Lyra, The Living Earth Show

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  As I put a can of soup out for lunch just now I noticed the label had on it "New!" Perhaps it is all quite obvious but the excla...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and Wind Ensemble, This Sceptered Isle, Music of Wood, Holst, Vaughan Williams and Elgar, David Bernard

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There is often enough something pastoral about the composers of the English 20th Century Renaissance. It is mostly music for any or all seas...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Ruperto Chapi, String Quartets 1 & 2, Cuarteto Latinoamericano

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  A month or so ago I reviewed the String Quartets 3 & 4 by Spanish composer Ruperto Chapi (1851-1909) as performed nicely by the Cuarte...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Sonatas for Violin Solo, Gidon Kremer

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  When done well, there is something about a modern work for a solo stringed instrument, or for that matter earlier, equally focused ones, l...