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Mostly Symphonies 32.
It becomes a bit of a game to guess what lies around the corner, like anticipating whether a rogue chef might festoon a sweet dessert with chopped parsley.
Mostly Symphonies 32.
It becomes a bit of a game to guess what lies around the corner, like anticipating whether a rogue chef might festoon a sweet dessert with chopped parsley.
Observations on the Hammerklavier Slow Movement
Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata as a whole, and its third movement in particular, has always elicited mournful superlatives from commentators.
Observations on the Hammerklavier Slow Movement
Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata as a whole, and its third movement in particular, has always elicited mournful superlatives from commentators.
Mostly Symphonies 31.
It is regrettable that late 19th-century American music is routinely ignored, or treated as a provincial curiosity, when entire generations were trained in Europe.
Mostly Symphonies 31.
It is regrettable that late 19th-century American music is routinely ignored, or treated as a provincial curiosity, when entire generations were trained in Europe.
Used Bin Troll Tweets CC.
This may be Chaplin’s finest score, but without the movie, these nearly 80 minutes pass by like a museum exhibition in a foreign land.
Used Bin Troll Tweets CC.
This may be Chaplin’s finest score, but without the movie, these nearly 80 minutes pass by like a museum exhibition in a foreign land.
Chion: Etudes and Essays (EA Bucket 26.)
Brocoli compiles Chion’s earliest pieces. A strict archivist might have sequenced these chronologically, but this order makes a dramatic design.
Chion: Etudes and Essays (EA Bucket 26.)
Brocoli compiles Chion’s earliest pieces. A strict archivist might have sequenced these chronologically, but this order makes a dramatic design.
Used Bin Troll Tweets BB.
A marauding concert requiem easily mistaken for Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14½.
Used Bin Troll Tweets BB.
A marauding concert requiem easily mistaken for Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14½.
Armchair Operas and Amusements 13.
An invigorating program featuring difficult works in the lied tradition.
Armchair Operas and Amusements 13.
An invigorating program featuring difficult works in the lied tradition.
Kurtág: Signs, Messages, but no Games / Armchair Operas and Amusements 12. / Hungarian Holiday 4.
ECM has bundled crackerjack performances of 11 large-scale compositions, most with voices backed by orchestra or large ensembles.
Kurtág: Signs, Messages, but no Games / Armchair Operas and Amusements 12. / Hungarian Holiday 4.
ECM has bundled crackerjack performances of 11 large-scale compositions, most with voices backed by orchestra or large ensembles.
Homo PoMo
Clementi and Silvestrov represent the late 20th century in its Janus-visaged splendor, two chiselers making the most of a ravaged and desolate toolkit – disparate fellow travelers.
Homo PoMo
Clementi and Silvestrov represent the late 20th century in its Janus-visaged splendor, two chiselers making the most of a ravaged and desolate toolkit – disparate fellow travelers.
Pièces de Clavecin 11.
Bustijn is perhaps the best or most accessible example we have today of Dutch music in the Baroque era. It is said that Bach possessed a copy of these Suittes.
Pièces de Clavecin 11.
Bustijn is perhaps the best or most accessible example we have today of Dutch music in the Baroque era. It is said that Bach possessed a copy of these Suittes.
Pièces de Clavecin 10.
This profoundly satisfying program started with the instrument.
Pièces de Clavecin 10.
This profoundly satisfying program started with the instrument.
Used Bin Troll Tweets AA.
Ingólfsson stakes a claim near the site that Romitelli quarried. The agile and luscious instrumental textures would have pleased Boulez.
Used Bin Troll Tweets AA.
Ingólfsson stakes a claim near the site that Romitelli quarried. The agile and luscious instrumental textures would have pleased Boulez.