Monday, August 29, 2022

Wenting Kang. Mosaic, French-Spanish Cross Cultural Roots in the Early-Modern Period, Viola-Piano Gems

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  When we sometimes get smug and think we know it all, then maybe a CD comes our way and we learn to listen again as if for the first time. ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Kuniko, Tribute to Miyoshi

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  I have long honored Akira Miyoshi (1933-2013) as one of those musical icons of the High Modern era in Japan. For some reason in the States...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

John Williams, Violin Concerto No. 2, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Boston Symphony Orchestra

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  With all the world of music unfolding today we are sometimes as in  a maelstrom, a storm of creative effort amidst a sea of unprecedented ...

Grazyna Bacewicz, Peter Jablonski Plays Bacewicz Piano Works

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  The gradually unfolding appreciation of Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) continues apace, at least here in the States. There i...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Carlo Monza Quartets, Opera in Musica, Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante

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  What we still can know anew can startle. So it turns out composer Carlo Monza (1735-1801) is something rewarding to hear, certainly as pla...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Carolin Widmann, L'Aurore, Music for Solo Violin, Music by Ysay, Benjamin, Hildegard of Bingen, Enesu, Bach

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  Music for solo string instruments seems to be surging in popularity and frequency of performance like perhaps never before. In the past fe...

Sarah Cahill, The Future is Female, Vol. 1 In Nature, Piano Music by Women Composers

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  Of all the music I have listened to over the years, there were at first few female composers recorded who wrote for the solo piano. In yea...