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Charles Rosen’s Goldbergs
Even with 217 other Goldbergs in the catalog, I’m glad Charles Rosen’s is back (as of Sept. 24).
Charles Rosen’s Goldbergs
Even with 217 other Goldbergs in the catalog, I’m glad Charles Rosen’s is back (as of Sept. 24).
Airscoop Dest’ny
Airscoop Dest’ny: Life and Death Athwart Love’s Anvil; A Poem in Vers Atroce with Magic Lantern Slides.
Airscoop Dest’ny
Airscoop Dest’ny: Life and Death Athwart Love’s Anvil; A Poem in Vers Atroce with Magic Lantern Slides.
Mostly Symphonies 24: Schnittke’s Ten
BIS rebundles a most idiosyncratic and essential symphonic cycle.
Mostly Symphonies 24: Schnittke’s Ten
BIS rebundles a most idiosyncratic and essential symphonic cycle.
Seven more last words
Gidon Kremer’s Seven Last Words, 32 years ago and little remembered, ends this survey.
Seven more last words
Gidon Kremer’s Seven Last Words, 32 years ago and little remembered, ends this survey.
Used Bin Troll Tweets C.
How can both plush and mannered be possible? Times have definitely changed.
Used Bin Troll Tweets C.
How can both plush and mannered be possible? Times have definitely changed.
Thea Kronborg, America’s Literary Diva
Of the few opera singers to appear in classic literature, Thea Kronborg is arguably the most humanly memorable.
Thea Kronborg, America’s Literary Diva
Of the few opera singers to appear in classic literature, Thea Kronborg is arguably the most humanly memorable.
Chamber ramble with accordion, guitars and percussion
Breath and shape are crucial to these pieces’ projection and the results entrance. There are times when duo or trio fuses together so successfully it’s hard to tell whether the high note is a trombone, the low note a clarinet, or the reedy sound an accordion.
Chamber ramble with accordion, guitars and percussion
Breath and shape are crucial to these pieces’ projection and the results entrance. There are times when duo or trio fuses together so successfully it’s hard to tell whether the high note is a trombone, the low note a clarinet, or the reedy sound an accordion.
Seven Last Words, seven quartets
Some have downgraded the string quartet version as a mere reduction of the string parts in Haydn’s orchestral score of the previous year, but many of us want to hear it precisely this way.
Seven Last Words, seven quartets
Some have downgraded the string quartet version as a mere reduction of the string parts in Haydn’s orchestral score of the previous year, but many of us want to hear it precisely this way.
(Dis)Arrangements
The Four Seasons has been deftly mutilated… Richter never forgets that harmony lies at Vivaldi’s core, regardless of repetition or the solo line. I imagine that Hope must hereafter worry he might confuse one for the other in performance.
(Dis)Arrangements
The Four Seasons has been deftly mutilated… Richter never forgets that harmony lies at Vivaldi’s core, regardless of repetition or the solo line. I imagine that Hope must hereafter worry he might confuse one for the other in performance.
Duodenal Etiquette, Scènes de Ballet
I clap clamshells in hope of becoming a percussionist. I require tutelage.
Duodenal Etiquette, Scènes de Ballet
I clap clamshells in hope of becoming a percussionist. I require tutelage.
The Garcia Sisters: Two Romantic Divas
Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot…. Separated by thirteen years and infinitely different natures, they were daughters of the noted tenor and voice teacher Manuel Garcia.
The Garcia Sisters: Two Romantic Divas
Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot…. Separated by thirteen years and infinitely different natures, they were daughters of the noted tenor and voice teacher Manuel Garcia.
Used Bin Troll Tweets B.
Gilbert’s freshness makes the comparison wonderfully simple.
Used Bin Troll Tweets B.
Gilbert’s freshness makes the comparison wonderfully simple.