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Youri Pochtar’s late Liszt
Youri Pochtar boasts an encompassing technique, as well as the intellect to grasp the music’s mercurial turns.
Youri Pochtar’s late Liszt
Youri Pochtar boasts an encompassing technique, as well as the intellect to grasp the music’s mercurial turns.
Mostly Symphonies 16.
A central instigator in the Wiener Aktionismus movement, Nitsch has been celebrated and vilified for events involving paint-splattering, animal disembowelment and nudity.
Mostly Symphonies 16.
A central instigator in the Wiener Aktionismus movement, Nitsch has been celebrated and vilified for events involving paint-splattering, animal disembowelment and nudity.
Eights and Nines
Here is more proof of my unnatural kinship with St. Anton.
Armchair Operas 6.
Eighty sluggish minutes dramatize three months in Bruckner’s life. The insecure 43-year-old spent the summer of 1867 at Bad Kreuzen wrestling with a decision: to leave Linz and seek his fortune in Vienna as a composer, or journey to Mexico.
Armchair Operas 6.
Eighty sluggish minutes dramatize three months in Bruckner’s life. The insecure 43-year-old spent the summer of 1867 at Bad Kreuzen wrestling with a decision: to leave Linz and seek his fortune in Vienna as a composer, or journey to Mexico.
Pianos Abused: Schubert and Beethoven in New York
The staged entertainment Three Pianos consists of three guys hanging out, knocking back drinks, and stumbling through Schubert’s 1827 Winterreise.
Pianos Abused: Schubert and Beethoven in New York
The staged entertainment Three Pianos consists of three guys hanging out, knocking back drinks, and stumbling through Schubert’s 1827 Winterreise.
Rocket Science
“I dream a string quartet plays Haydn on the moon.”
Threes and Sevens
Is Brucknerophilia a recognized medical condition? I caught it early in life and find that it grows worse, by which I mean better, with age.
Threes and Sevens
Is Brucknerophilia a recognized medical condition? I caught it early in life and find that it grows worse, by which I mean better, with age.
Awrite, Erik Chisholm!
Erik Chisholm (1904-1965) is the most interesting 20th-century Scots musician you’ve never heard of.
Awrite, Erik Chisholm!
Erik Chisholm (1904-1965) is the most interesting 20th-century Scots musician you’ve never heard of.
Diabelli Days
Looking back on the Diabelli Variations after only five performances might seem premature.
Diabelli Days
Looking back on the Diabelli Variations after only five performances might seem premature.
String Theory 4: String Orchestras
Ever willful, Pettersson forges sternly lyric melodies in which every pitch counts. Typical of the composer, gorgeous tonal moments, usually cadential, emerge from dissonance.
String Theory 4: String Orchestras
Ever willful, Pettersson forges sternly lyric melodies in which every pitch counts. Typical of the composer, gorgeous tonal moments, usually cadential, emerge from dissonance.
Olivier Greif 1.
Composer-pianist Olivier Greif (1950-2000) passed away seated at his instrument, where he was discovered days later. Despite his obscurity, Greif attracted first-rank interpreters.
Olivier Greif 1.
Composer-pianist Olivier Greif (1950-2000) passed away seated at his instrument, where he was discovered days later. Despite his obscurity, Greif attracted first-rank interpreters.
Mostly Symphonies 15.
As Gardiner tells it, Brahms was not the progressive Schoenberg thought he was.
Mostly Symphonies 15.
As Gardiner tells it, Brahms was not the progressive Schoenberg thought he was.