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Ferrari Heteroclite and Obscure
It’s rare that a previously unheard work shakes up our conception: Journal Intime and Chantal can challenge an understanding of Ferrari’s worldview and work.
Ferrari Heteroclite and Obscure
It’s rare that a previously unheard work shakes up our conception: Journal Intime and Chantal can challenge an understanding of Ferrari’s worldview and work.
Élie Cohen and Georges Truc: Obscure Conductors
Each made significant recordings, important enough that the obscurity of their conductors is hard to understand.
Élie Cohen and Georges Truc: Obscure Conductors
Each made significant recordings, important enough that the obscurity of their conductors is hard to understand.
Flutes
Psenitsnikova takes us through four varied pieces, three requiring tape or tape delay, from Fritsch who founded the Feedback Studio in Cologne.
Flutes
Psenitsnikova takes us through four varied pieces, three requiring tape or tape delay, from Fritsch who founded the Feedback Studio in Cologne.
Piano Factory 22. / Italian Vacation 15.
If Tosatti is encountered today, it is perhaps as Scelsi’s transcriber who momentarily popped up to claim a greater share of attribution.
Piano Factory 22. / Italian Vacation 15.
If Tosatti is encountered today, it is perhaps as Scelsi’s transcriber who momentarily popped up to claim a greater share of attribution.
Piano Factory 21: Haydn and Busoni
Exercising a Stein fortepiano from 1799, Mitchell improvises brief thematic and harmonic transitions. These are mature Haydn sonatas, in which seemingly modest ideas are expertly probed.
Piano Factory 21: Haydn and Busoni
Exercising a Stein fortepiano from 1799, Mitchell improvises brief thematic and harmonic transitions. These are mature Haydn sonatas, in which seemingly modest ideas are expertly probed.
Piano Factory 20.
This portrait disc reveals a consistency across several decades, a witty composer who admired Prokofiev and Classical forms.
Piano Factory 20.
This portrait disc reveals a consistency across several decades, a witty composer who admired Prokofiev and Classical forms.
Used Bin Troll Tweets Z.
With an assured understanding of the music, Zhu Xiao-Mei’s second take is incredibly personal, perhaps too quirky and nutty for purists.
Used Bin Troll Tweets Z.
With an assured understanding of the music, Zhu Xiao-Mei’s second take is incredibly personal, perhaps too quirky and nutty for purists.
Odes to Music
An ever widening, ever brighter circle. Levin’s deep conversancy with the Romantic canon informs her spirited approach to both modern and period works.
Odes to Music
An ever widening, ever brighter circle. Levin’s deep conversancy with the Romantic canon informs her spirited approach to both modern and period works.
Farinelli’s Last City
Originally interred at the monastery of Santa Croce, Farinelli’s remains were moved to the Certosa in 1810 following the destruction of the former place by Napoleonic forces.
Farinelli’s Last City
Originally interred at the monastery of Santa Croce, Farinelli’s remains were moved to the Certosa in 1810 following the destruction of the former place by Napoleonic forces.
Piano Factory 19.
Folks expecting a metronome or brash chords will be surprised with Levingston’s limpid Glass recital.
Piano Factory 19.
Folks expecting a metronome or brash chords will be surprised with Levingston’s limpid Glass recital.
Used Bin Troll Tweets Y.
Is Via Crucis colorless and ephemeral? Is Socrate religious? This duo piano release crafts a universe where Liszt, Satie and Cage blur.
Used Bin Troll Tweets Y.
Is Via Crucis colorless and ephemeral? Is Socrate religious? This duo piano release crafts a universe where Liszt, Satie and Cage blur.
New and Near New in Boston
Gubaidulina’s one-movement Triple Concerto is a consummate mystery. It does not present itself as a typical concerto requiring flamboyant soloists and an obliging orchestra.
New and Near New in Boston
Gubaidulina’s one-movement Triple Concerto is a consummate mystery. It does not present itself as a typical concerto requiring flamboyant soloists and an obliging orchestra.