Franco Donatoni
Despite its complexity and dissonant vocabulary, Donatoni’s choral writing in In cauda (1982, text by Brandolino Brandolini d’Adda) reaches back through Verdi to Gesualdo in its directness of expression.
Franco Donatoni
Despite its complexity and dissonant vocabulary, Donatoni’s choral writing in In cauda (1982, text by Brandolino Brandolini d’Adda) reaches back through Verdi to Gesualdo in its directness of expression.
Composed and deComposed: Music of Our Centuries
To paraphrase the great musical parodist Anna Russell, “The beauty of opera is that it doesn’t quite matter what you do, so long as you sing it.”
Composed and deComposed: Music of Our Centuries
To paraphrase the great musical parodist Anna Russell, “The beauty of opera is that it doesn’t quite matter what you do, so long as you sing it.”
La Música Mexicana
Report #3: Progressive Rock, Jazz and Folk
An Assortment of Goodies
Before Stefan Winter launched the Munich-based Winter & Winter label, he produced a stream of uncommon jazz releases at JMT.
An Assortment of Goodies
Before Stefan Winter launched the Munich-based Winter & Winter label, he produced a stream of uncommon jazz releases at JMT.
Three ECM Releases
I approached the new Hilliard Ensemble disc with some optimism, and not only because it lacks intimations of hipness (no squalling Garbarek sax or “holy minimalist” vibe).
Three ECM Releases
I approached the new Hilliard Ensemble disc with some optimism, and not only because it lacks intimations of hipness (no squalling Garbarek sax or “holy minimalist” vibe).
Channel Classics: Audiophile Nirvana
…. start rejoicing, folks: Jared Sacks, the engineer/producer of Holland’s Channel Classics, is now sending us Early Musique that is unusual and off-beat, superbly performed and even more/most superbestly (?) recorded.
Channel Classics: Audiophile Nirvana
…. start rejoicing, folks: Jared Sacks, the engineer/producer of Holland’s Channel Classics, is now sending us Early Musique that is unusual and off-beat, superbly performed and even more/most superbestly (?) recorded.
Orlando Gibbons, et al.
The language of Shakespear and the King James Bible is held by many to be high points of English literature. But rarely do we hear the music admired by contemporaries.
Orlando Gibbons, et al.
The language of Shakespear and the King James Bible is held by many to be high points of English literature. But rarely do we hear the music admired by contemporaries.
Sima Bina Means Great in Any Language
Visualize a stage covered with flower arrangements and beautiful Persian rugs, and a slightly concave riser, about bench height or a tad higher, and microphones set for five.
Sima Bina Means Great in Any Language
Visualize a stage covered with flower arrangements and beautiful Persian rugs, and a slightly concave riser, about bench height or a tad higher, and microphones set for five.
Dear La Folia 3.
Schumann is something of a mystery to me.
African Traditional Music and Suprasl, Orthodox Mosaic
Auvidis is re-issuing at mid-price the excellent sounding and well documented UNESCO Collection LPs of traditional music from around the world that originally appeared in the 1970s and 1980s.
African Traditional Music and Suprasl, Orthodox Mosaic
Auvidis is re-issuing at mid-price the excellent sounding and well documented UNESCO Collection LPs of traditional music from around the world that originally appeared in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Complete Chamber Music of Poulenc
The music of Poulenc above all abounds in melody. It is music that is easily accessible and which, despite its twentieth century provenance, never calls into question the prevailing tonal-modal system.
The Complete Chamber Music of Poulenc
The music of Poulenc above all abounds in melody. It is music that is easily accessible and which, despite its twentieth century provenance, never calls into question the prevailing tonal-modal system.