Articles by Year: La Folia, 2003.
Mozart’s Rondo in A minor, K.V. 511
A melancholy dance of childlike hearts, delicate steps that shimmer even as they brood — to ask an eternal question, then listen as Mozart answers in cascades of pearls.
Mozart’s Rondo in A minor, K.V. 511
A melancholy dance of childlike hearts, delicate steps that shimmer even as they brood — to ask an eternal question, then listen as Mozart answers in cascades of pearls.
Random Noise 1: Anouar Brahem on ECM
…when people ask me what I do, I tell them that I write about music nobody wants to listen to.
Random Noise 1: Anouar Brahem on ECM
…when people ask me what I do, I tell them that I write about music nobody wants to listen to.
A Dernier CRI, Slices of Cantaloupe, and Schlag from Vienna Modern Masters
This is one of CRI’s most persuasive releases and also one of its last.
A Dernier CRI, Slices of Cantaloupe, and Schlag from Vienna Modern Masters
This is one of CRI’s most persuasive releases and also one of its last.
Florence Foster Jenkins & Friends on Naxos
Like a hyena caught in a washing machine! It sets all my commemorative plates a-rattle. Her intonation has the accuracy of toddlers solving quadratic equations.
Florence Foster Jenkins & Friends on Naxos
Like a hyena caught in a washing machine! It sets all my commemorative plates a-rattle. Her intonation has the accuracy of toddlers solving quadratic equations.
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and I
In December of 1808, Beethoven led an amateur group in the premiere of his Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80. They say he improvised the Introduction in performance and only later wrote it down.
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and I
In December of 1808, Beethoven led an amateur group in the premiere of his Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80. They say he improvised the Introduction in performance and only later wrote it down.
Göteborg’s Latest Duo, and Others
The two most illustrious Hamburg pupils of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck share these dazzling demonstration CDs of the amazing variety of colors of the North German Hanseatic organ in the Örgryte nya kyrka at Göteborg.
Göteborg’s Latest Duo, and Others
The two most illustrious Hamburg pupils of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck share these dazzling demonstration CDs of the amazing variety of colors of the North German Hanseatic organ in the Örgryte nya kyrka at Göteborg.
American Symphonies on Naxos and First Edition
Whether one looks forward or back, Naxos and First Edition Music are two labels making significant contributions to American symphonic music.
American Symphonies on Naxos and First Edition
Whether one looks forward or back, Naxos and First Edition Music are two labels making significant contributions to American symphonic music.
Dear La Folia 12.
I don’t know that a month has elapsed in the past five years without periods of audiophile anguish over imaging.
Dear La Folia 12.
I don’t know that a month has elapsed in the past five years without periods of audiophile anguish over imaging.
Operatic Rarities Highlight Early Summer in N.Y.
Rare and rarer best describes a trio of operas performed in June and July in three New York venues. They may never win great popularity — not a Bohème among them — but they provided three evenings of great music strikingly performed.
Operatic Rarities Highlight Early Summer in N.Y.
Rare and rarer best describes a trio of operas performed in June and July in three New York venues. They may never win great popularity — not a Bohème among them — but they provided three evenings of great music strikingly performed.
Dear La Folia 11: This Time ’Round, Amplifiers
Perceived acoustic certainties appear like Venus on the half shell, only to crumble in a penumbra of doubt: Do these two amplifiers, a Bel Canto eVo2 and a Spectron Digital One, really sound different?
Dear La Folia 11: This Time ’Round, Amplifiers
Perceived acoustic certainties appear like Venus on the half shell, only to crumble in a penumbra of doubt: Do these two amplifiers, a Bel Canto eVo2 and a Spectron Digital One, really sound different?
Echt und Ersatz: Mahler, Bruckner, Rott, Zemlinsky, et al.
With Berg just ’round the corner, it’s been easier to tackle Boulez’s explorations of the purely orchestral Mahler symphonies, especially the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth.
Echt und Ersatz: Mahler, Bruckner, Rott, Zemlinsky, et al.
With Berg just ’round the corner, it’s been easier to tackle Boulez’s explorations of the purely orchestral Mahler symphonies, especially the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth.
Italian Vacation 1.
More than any other 20th-century composer — and like the Gabrielis, the other great Venetian composers centuries before him — Nono wrote music sensitive to the performance space’s acoustics.
Italian Vacation 1.
More than any other 20th-century composer — and like the Gabrielis, the other great Venetian composers centuries before him — Nono wrote music sensitive to the performance space’s acoustics.