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Used Bin Troll Tweets H.
With Disklaviers and MIDI, BMOP recreates Antheil’s clangorous and insistent but unemotional ballet.
Used Bin Troll Tweets H.
With Disklaviers and MIDI, BMOP recreates Antheil’s clangorous and insistent but unemotional ballet.
Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Composed in 1838 and dedicated to his friend F. Chopin, Kreisleriana is a pianistic standout, worth perhaps two Carnavals.
Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Composed in 1838 and dedicated to his friend F. Chopin, Kreisleriana is a pianistic standout, worth perhaps two Carnavals.
Piano Factory 13.
Manhkopf’s vigorous attacks remind that the piano does not sustain. Indeed this conceit sparks Rhizom, a Glenn Gould homage, in which multiple layers of material intersect and interfere.
Piano Factory 13.
Manhkopf’s vigorous attacks remind that the piano does not sustain. Indeed this conceit sparks Rhizom, a Glenn Gould homage, in which multiple layers of material intersect and interfere.
Atopos Survey 2. / EA Bucket 19. / Italian Vacation 12.
Curran’s Endangered Species is likely to be one of the best CDs I will have heard all year, and it’s on a favorite new label.
Atopos Survey 2. / EA Bucket 19. / Italian Vacation 12.
Curran’s Endangered Species is likely to be one of the best CDs I will have heard all year, and it’s on a favorite new label.
Where Varèse lived
Captured in New York City with snow on the streets after a winter storm, views of the house where Edgard and Louise Varèse lived.
Where Varèse lived
Captured in New York City with snow on the streets after a winter storm, views of the house where Edgard and Louise Varèse lived.
Used Bin Troll Tweets G.
What’s wrong? I’m starting to like everything. Perhaps I just like the piano.
Used Bin Troll Tweets G.
What’s wrong? I’m starting to like everything. Perhaps I just like the piano.
Of Light through the Clouds
The Rands Concerto is, contrary to its title, much more a series of interactions between piano and different sections of the orchestra.
Of Light through the Clouds
The Rands Concerto is, contrary to its title, much more a series of interactions between piano and different sections of the orchestra.
Ensemble Klang’s Colors and Melodies
The recent arrival of Goebbels’ Walden sparked revisiting a few prior Ensemble Klang albums.
Ensemble Klang’s Colors and Melodies
The recent arrival of Goebbels’ Walden sparked revisiting a few prior Ensemble Klang albums.
Personal Discoveries: Mieczysław Weinberg
For this needful listener, ECM 2368/69, with Gidon Kremer as soloist and concert master of the rather immodestly named Kremerata Baltica, arrives in timely fashion as a Year’s Best.
Personal Discoveries: Mieczysław Weinberg
For this needful listener, ECM 2368/69, with Gidon Kremer as soloist and concert master of the rather immodestly named Kremerata Baltica, arrives in timely fashion as a Year’s Best.
Atopos Survey 1. / Italian Vacation 11. / Piano Factory 12.
Although Atopos has been around for over a decade, I’ve only just discovered them. The emphasis is of course Italian, the sensibility suggesting various late-20th century Italians taking cues from European (Darmstadt) and American (Cage, Feldman, et al.) trends.
Atopos Survey 1. / Italian Vacation 11. / Piano Factory 12.
Although Atopos has been around for over a decade, I’ve only just discovered them. The emphasis is of course Italian, the sensibility suggesting various late-20th century Italians taking cues from European (Darmstadt) and American (Cage, Feldman, et al.) trends.
James Erber’s The “Traces” Cycle
My entry into this rewarding series came via a scenario I always enjoy – a highly evolved structure is interrogated, at first through hesitations and “mistakes,” and eventually falls apart.
James Erber’s The “Traces” Cycle
My entry into this rewarding series came via a scenario I always enjoy – a highly evolved structure is interrogated, at first through hesitations and “mistakes,” and eventually falls apart.
Concerto Concentrations 2.
Commissioned by Myers to commemorate his mother’s passing, McLean provides a particularly expressive tonal work, a welcome cross between Barber and John Adams… The Shostakovich arrangement is the biggest effort, difficult all around.
Concerto Concentrations 2.
Commissioned by Myers to commemorate his mother’s passing, McLean provides a particularly expressive tonal work, a welcome cross between Barber and John Adams… The Shostakovich arrangement is the biggest effort, difficult all around.