Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

Modern classical and avant garde concert music of the 20th and 21st centuries forms the primary focus of this blog. It is hoped that through the discussions a picture will emerge of modern music, its heritage, and what it means for us.

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Anil Camci's Dekagon, New Electronic Music Gems

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  The state-of-the-art for CD design and graphics never ceases to stimulate me, and not always for the worse. Look here at the cover of Anil...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

A Baroque Christmas at Sono Luminus, Felipe Dominguez, Organ

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  What is a holiday except what you make it?  I can recall more than one Christmas Season that virtually or nearly stood or fell on the basi...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Moritz Moszkowski, Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume Two

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  September 11, 2014 was when I last covered something of note by German-Jewish Polish descended composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) on t...

Miriam K. Smith, Momentum, Cello and Piano by Prokofiev, Stravinsky. Nadia Boulanger, with Sandra Wright Shen, Mini-Review

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  Just another Monday as we live it? Well not entirely. We have a new CD by a cellist and a pianist with whom I do not have any previous ear...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Dana Kaufman, Emily & Sue... An A Cappella Pop Opera Based on the Lives of Emily Dickinson and Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

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  Sometimes you wake up and find yourself in a world that is changing and like my grandfather  holding his ears long ago at my brother's...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Robert Schumann, Symphonies 1 and 2 (Reorchestrated by Mahler), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop

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  If you've been exposed at all to Robert Schumann's orchestral output and its brilliance, and too its reception history you have he...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

The Knights, The Kreutzer Project, Eric Jacobsen, Hearing Beethoven, Janacek, Jacobsen, Clyne

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When we enter the world of digital verbiage, the slightest mistype might destroy all previous writing. That just happened to me here after t...
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Grego Applegate Edwards
Cape May, New Jersey, United States
I am a life-long writer, musician, composer and editor. I wrote for Cadence for many years, a periodical covering jazz and improv music. My combined Blogspot blogs (as listed in the links) now cover well over 3,000 recordings in review. It's been a labor of love. The music is chosen because I like it, for the most part, so you won't find a great deal of nastiness here. I have no affiliations and gain nothing from liking what I do, so that makes me somewhat impartial. I do happen to like a set of certain musics done well, so it's not everything released that gets coverage on these blogs. I went to music and higher education schools and got degrees. It changed my life and gave me the ability to think and write better. I've studied with master musicians, too. The benefits I gained from them are invaluable. I appreciate my readers. You are why I write these reviews. I hope the joy of music enriches your life like it does mine. Thank you. And thank you to all the artists that make it possible.
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