200 Ans de Musique à Versailles
The 200 years can be navigated as a prelude with three acts. The booklet suggests a Prologue followed by an Apotheosis, Divertissement and Epilogue.
200 Ans de Musique à Versailles
The 200 years can be navigated as a prelude with three acts. The booklet suggests a Prologue followed by an Apotheosis, Divertissement and Epilogue.
Re: Duke redux
A slice of Duke Ellington’s 50-year recording history — especially one as thick, rare, and mouth-watering as this — is a slice of Americana…
Re: Duke redux
A slice of Duke Ellington’s 50-year recording history — especially one as thick, rare, and mouth-watering as this — is a slice of Americana…
Passion, Passion
The version here is mostly 1724, much more so than Haller, though the inclusion of the duet Himmel reiße, Welt erbebe was an adroit choice.
Passion, Passion
The version here is mostly 1724, much more so than Haller, though the inclusion of the duet Himmel reiße, Welt erbebe was an adroit choice.
Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 2.
Perhaps too eagerly I mentioned that there would be a second part in this string of Nono explorations.
Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 2.
Perhaps too eagerly I mentioned that there would be a second part in this string of Nono explorations.
The Thirty-Three: Beth Levin
Linking the Diabelli Variations to the Goldbergs began with Diabelli himself, but I could find only 15 pianists who’ve recorded both, never mind how successfully. Levin joins the clan1 on her second Centaur release.
The Thirty-Three: Beth Levin
Linking the Diabelli Variations to the Goldbergs began with Diabelli himself, but I could find only 15 pianists who’ve recorded both, never mind how successfully. Levin joins the clan1 on her second Centaur release.
Random Noise 28
To pose an obvious question: How do we judge greatness without mediocrities with which to compare?
Random Noise 28
To pose an obvious question: How do we judge greatness without mediocrities with which to compare?
Rameau, présent et absent
Nearly 270 years after its first publication, Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts perpetuate a modest enigma: What sort of ensemble should play them?
Rameau, présent et absent
Nearly 270 years after its first publication, Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts perpetuate a modest enigma: What sort of ensemble should play them?
Mostly Symphonies 17.
Other Thirds — in any version — made little impression until now. But then again, the Wagner nods pass unnoticed.
Mostly Symphonies 17.
Other Thirds — in any version — made little impression until now. But then again, the Wagner nods pass unnoticed.
Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 1.
I’ve postponed covering a stack of relatively recent Nono releases, music impossible to contemplate casually.
Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 1.
I’ve postponed covering a stack of relatively recent Nono releases, music impossible to contemplate casually.
Bruckner’s Mass No. 2
Layton and his recording team get proportions in the Mass as right as anyone’s.
Bruckner’s Mass No. 2
Layton and his recording team get proportions in the Mass as right as anyone’s.
Armchair Operas 7.
Der Mond appeared two years after the runaway hit Carmina Burana, and like most everything Orff penned in its wake, it shares the same beer-hall bravado, diatonic gamut and hammering rhythms.
Armchair Operas 7.
Der Mond appeared two years after the runaway hit Carmina Burana, and like most everything Orff penned in its wake, it shares the same beer-hall bravado, diatonic gamut and hammering rhythms.