Articles by Year: La Folia, 2010.
EA Bucket 11.
Wind and water provide the background for Lotis’ dreams. Most of the music operates in the treble range and uses precisely positioned pitched sounds, rarely with noise or distortion.
EA Bucket 11.
Wind and water provide the background for Lotis’ dreams. Most of the music operates in the treble range and uses precisely positioned pitched sounds, rarely with noise or distortion.
Album Tweets 9.
Tilney’s measured pace charms, ditto the vivid sonorities.
Piano Trios
Compared with the string quartet, contemporary piano trios are in short supply. After Ravel, Ives, Shostakovich and perhaps Schnittke, few 20th-century works have become staples.
Piano Trios
Compared with the string quartet, contemporary piano trios are in short supply. After Ravel, Ives, Shostakovich and perhaps Schnittke, few 20th-century works have become staples.
Qualche tedeschi, qualche gaijin
A direct comparison of the existing recordings of Lachenmann’s three quartets seems pointless.
Qualche tedeschi, qualche gaijin
A direct comparison of the existing recordings of Lachenmann’s three quartets seems pointless.
String Theory 2: Violoncellos and Basses with Support
Canonici produces vivid playing, a wonder to behold. However, these modernist solos with their brutal snap pizzicatos, soaring harmonics, low growling and frenetic tremolos tend to blur together.
String Theory 2: Violoncellos and Basses with Support
Canonici produces vivid playing, a wonder to behold. However, these modernist solos with their brutal snap pizzicatos, soaring harmonics, low growling and frenetic tremolos tend to blur together.
Album Tweets 8.
Walt Mundkowsky [March 2010.] Ralph SHAPEY: Five for violin and piano (1960)*; Mann Soli for solo violin (1985); Partita for solo violin (1965); Etchings for solo violin (1945); Millenium Designs for violin and piano (2000)* (rec. 2006). Miranda Cuckson (vln),
Album Tweets 8.
Walt Mundkowsky [March 2010.] Ralph SHAPEY: Five for violin and piano (1960)*; Mann Soli for solo violin (1985); Partita for solo violin (1965); Etchings for solo violin (1945); Millenium Designs for violin and piano (2000)* (rec. 2006). Miranda Cuckson (vln),
Der kranke Pierrot
As important as the thrice-seven poems of Op. 21 have been to my musical development, I can no longer sit still through Pierrot lunaire.
Der kranke Pierrot
As important as the thrice-seven poems of Op. 21 have been to my musical development, I can no longer sit still through Pierrot lunaire.
String Theory 1: Violins and Violas
In unceasing motion, Oesterle juggles 70 four-pitch groups into repeating patterns, generally double-stops with frequent harmonics, uneven rhythmic profiles and infrequent fast notes.
String Theory 1: Violins and Violas
In unceasing motion, Oesterle juggles 70 four-pitch groups into repeating patterns, generally double-stops with frequent harmonics, uneven rhythmic profiles and infrequent fast notes.
The French Connection
No one’s about to launch a “Mostly Fauré Festival” these days but I found it interesting that a number of recent CD releases reflect his central position in French chamber music at the turn of the last century.
The French Connection
No one’s about to launch a “Mostly Fauré Festival” these days but I found it interesting that a number of recent CD releases reflect his central position in French chamber music at the turn of the last century.
Trois Bachs et un Bizet
Marc Minkowski, once the rising hope of French early music, is nearing 50, and has a new label, Naïve, after more than a decade with Archiv.
Trois Bachs et un Bizet
Marc Minkowski, once the rising hope of French early music, is nearing 50, and has a new label, Naïve, after more than a decade with Archiv.