Piano Factory 5: Haydn Sonatas
Coming off a Haydn year (2009), we’re awash in the man’s music. The piano sonatas are numbered according to Christa Landon’s ordering of the extant 62.
Piano Factory 5: Haydn Sonatas
Coming off a Haydn year (2009), we’re awash in the man’s music. The piano sonatas are numbered according to Christa Landon’s ordering of the extant 62.
Just Stop.
Walt Mundkowsky [May 2010.] Name one Living composer Whose Permanent silence Would be Disastrous Why add To it Just stop
Just Stop.
Walt Mundkowsky [May 2010.] Name one Living composer Whose Permanent silence Would be Disastrous Why add To it Just stop
Pièces de Clavecin 5.
It’d be pleasure enough merely to listen to this 1751 Jean-Henri Hemsch doing anything. As it happens, Haas offers perhaps the best, newest Le Grand on the market.
Pièces de Clavecin 5.
It’d be pleasure enough merely to listen to this 1751 Jean-Henri Hemsch doing anything. As it happens, Haas offers perhaps the best, newest Le Grand on the market.
A New Music Concert in St. Peter’s Church
“The Jazz Church” as it is called recently hosted a New York Composer’s Circle program of varied new music (April 27, 2010).
A New Music Concert in St. Peter’s Church
“The Jazz Church” as it is called recently hosted a New York Composer’s Circle program of varied new music (April 27, 2010).
EA Bucket 11.
Wind and water provide the background for Lotis’ dreams. Most of the music operates in the treble range and uses precisely positioned pitched sounds, rarely with noise or distortion.
EA Bucket 11.
Wind and water provide the background for Lotis’ dreams. Most of the music operates in the treble range and uses precisely positioned pitched sounds, rarely with noise or distortion.
Album Tweets 9.
Tilney’s measured pace charms, ditto the vivid sonorities.
Piano Trios
Compared with the string quartet, contemporary piano trios are in short supply. After Ravel, Ives, Shostakovich and perhaps Schnittke, few 20th-century works have become staples.
Piano Trios
Compared with the string quartet, contemporary piano trios are in short supply. After Ravel, Ives, Shostakovich and perhaps Schnittke, few 20th-century works have become staples.
Qualche tedeschi, qualche gaijin
A direct comparison of the existing recordings of Lachenmann’s three quartets seems pointless.
Qualche tedeschi, qualche gaijin
A direct comparison of the existing recordings of Lachenmann’s three quartets seems pointless.
String Theory 2: Violoncellos and Basses with Support
Canonici produces vivid playing, a wonder to behold. However, these modernist solos with their brutal snap pizzicatos, soaring harmonics, low growling and frenetic tremolos tend to blur together.
String Theory 2: Violoncellos and Basses with Support
Canonici produces vivid playing, a wonder to behold. However, these modernist solos with their brutal snap pizzicatos, soaring harmonics, low growling and frenetic tremolos tend to blur together.
Album Tweets 8.
Walt Mundkowsky [March 2010.] Ralph SHAPEY: Five for violin and piano (1960)*; Mann Soli for solo violin (1985); Partita for solo violin (1965); Etchings for solo violin (1945); Millenium Designs for violin and piano (2000)* (rec. 2006). Miranda Cuckson (vln),
Album Tweets 8.
Walt Mundkowsky [March 2010.] Ralph SHAPEY: Five for violin and piano (1960)*; Mann Soli for solo violin (1985); Partita for solo violin (1965); Etchings for solo violin (1945); Millenium Designs for violin and piano (2000)* (rec. 2006). Miranda Cuckson (vln),