Incredible Risks: Strange and Improvised Musics
Once again I’m glad to share some more of these releases with you. Some are fresh out of the oven, and others have been waiting for their proper time.
Incredible Risks: Strange and Improvised Musics
Once again I’m glad to share some more of these releases with you. Some are fresh out of the oven, and others have been waiting for their proper time.
Composed and deComposed: Music of Our Centuries
The events surrounding the terrorist destruction of the Wold Trade Center has had a peculiar effect on the musicians and other artists I’ve spoken with.
Composed and deComposed: Music of Our Centuries
The events surrounding the terrorist destruction of the Wold Trade Center has had a peculiar effect on the musicians and other artists I’ve spoken with.
An Assortment of Moderns, Part II
I was way pleased when the Grammys gave George Crumb’s Star-child the honors for Best Contemporary Composition of 2000.
An Assortment of Moderns, Part II
I was way pleased when the Grammys gave George Crumb’s Star-child the honors for Best Contemporary Composition of 2000.
An Assortment of Moderns, Part I
Nono might not be your thing, but this is an extraordinary recording and it does much to document what contemporary stage works can be about.
An Assortment of Moderns, Part I
Nono might not be your thing, but this is an extraordinary recording and it does much to document what contemporary stage works can be about.
Among The Year’s So Far Best
Like everyone in New York, I reacted to the September 11th terror attacks with fear and loathing, destructive emotions slowly devolving to a burn-out expressing itself for our purpose as an inability to engage with discs I’d been sent for review.
Among The Year’s So Far Best
Like everyone in New York, I reacted to the September 11th terror attacks with fear and loathing, destructive emotions slowly devolving to a burn-out expressing itself for our purpose as an inability to engage with discs I’d been sent for review.
More about organs than you wanted to know
Earlier in La Folia I raved about the recording quality, choral and organ performance and the organ itself — not to mention the ideal reverberant acoustic. This CD release is one of the highlights of my half-century of collecting recordings!
More about organs than you wanted to know
Earlier in La Folia I raved about the recording quality, choral and organ performance and the organ itself — not to mention the ideal reverberant acoustic. This CD release is one of the highlights of my half-century of collecting recordings!
Modal Magic from Winchester
Many of us had our introduction to the music of Thomas Tallis via Vaughn Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.”
Modal Magic from Winchester
Many of us had our introduction to the music of Thomas Tallis via Vaughn Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.”
Close, but no Seeger
My first encounter with what we now call folk music was truly an auspicious one. But who knew at the time?
Close, but no Seeger
My first encounter with what we now call folk music was truly an auspicious one. But who knew at the time?
Globalization and the Destruction of Culture
The whole world was up in arms when the Talibans blew up the statues of the giant Buddhas at the foot of a mountain in Afghanistan — the world’s heritage. It was a shameful and stupid act, the result of over-zealous religious fanaticism.
Globalization and the Destruction of Culture
The whole world was up in arms when the Talibans blew up the statues of the giant Buddhas at the foot of a mountain in Afghanistan — the world’s heritage. It was a shameful and stupid act, the result of over-zealous religious fanaticism.
Recordings of new and recent music
Charmed by his first experience of a music fair (a convention where closely spaced booths are simultaneously demonstrating different music products), Kagel constructed this 41-minute work, a “kaleidoscope” where “ different situations unexpectedly succeed one another and coexist simultaneously.”
Recordings of new and recent music
Charmed by his first experience of a music fair (a convention where closely spaced booths are simultaneously demonstrating different music products), Kagel constructed this 41-minute work, a “kaleidoscope” where “ different situations unexpectedly succeed one another and coexist simultaneously.”
The Year’s So Far Best
Mike Silverton [August 2001. Originally appeared in La Folia 3:4.] Heinz HOLLIGER: Schneewittchen (Snow White), opera in five scenes, with prologue and epilogue. Libretto adapted by Heinz Holliger from Robert Walser’s play Schneewittchen. Juliane Banse, soprano, Snow White; Cornelia Kallisch,
The Year’s So Far Best
Mike Silverton [August 2001. Originally appeared in La Folia 3:4.] Heinz HOLLIGER: Schneewittchen (Snow White), opera in five scenes, with prologue and epilogue. Libretto adapted by Heinz Holliger from Robert Walser’s play Schneewittchen. Juliane Banse, soprano, Snow White; Cornelia Kallisch,
Caruso on Stage
I have lately been revisiting my small, but now growing, collection of very old (circa 1916) acoustic Victor Red Seal vocal 78’s of Caruso, Galli-Curci, Melba, Schumann-Heink, and Tetrazzini.
Caruso on Stage
I have lately been revisiting my small, but now growing, collection of very old (circa 1916) acoustic Victor Red Seal vocal 78’s of Caruso, Galli-Curci, Melba, Schumann-Heink, and Tetrazzini.