J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations derive their name from the fourteen-year-old harpsichord prodigy Johann Gottlieb Goldberg who was commissioned by Bach’s often ill patron, Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk (who was also Goldberg’s teacher) to play to him during his frequent bouts of insomnia.
J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations derive their name from the fourteen-year-old harpsichord prodigy Johann Gottlieb Goldberg who was commissioned by Bach’s often ill patron, Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk (who was also Goldberg’s teacher) to play to him during his frequent bouts of insomnia.
Incredible Risks: Jazz and Improvised Music
I’m using a slightly different format for “Incredible Risks” this issue. There are tons of discs flying in, many worthies, and I’ll be covering live gigs again in the next issue.
Incredible Risks: Jazz and Improvised Music
I’m using a slightly different format for “Incredible Risks” this issue. There are tons of discs flying in, many worthies, and I’ll be covering live gigs again in the next issue.
Stockhausen’s Helikopter-Streichquartett
“I heard and saw the four string players in four helicopters flying in the air and playing…”
Stockhausen’s Helikopter-Streichquartett
“I heard and saw the four string players in four helicopters flying in the air and playing…”
Text into Music
Text into music is the worse of two evils.
Early Modulations: Vintage Volts
From Caipirinha comes a disc, somewhat different from their usual fare…
Early Modulations: Vintage Volts
From Caipirinha comes a disc, somewhat different from their usual fare…
A Well-Tempered Well-Tempered Clavier
The great cycle of forty-eight keyboard preludes and fugues that Bach created for didactic purposes in The Well-Tempered Clavier is one of the sublime monuments of Western art.
A Well-Tempered Well-Tempered Clavier
The great cycle of forty-eight keyboard preludes and fugues that Bach created for didactic purposes in The Well-Tempered Clavier is one of the sublime monuments of Western art.
Wolfgang Holzmair
Holzmair? You really want to know? Well, just for starters, imagine a baritone who sounds like Fritz Wunderlich.
Wolfgang Holzmair
Holzmair? You really want to know? Well, just for starters, imagine a baritone who sounds like Fritz Wunderlich.
Chaya Czernowin
The succinct (9:36) nonet’s title, Afatsim, translates to Galls, i.e., tissue swellings “often distinguished by a characteristic shape or color” brought about, usually, by parasites.
Chaya Czernowin
The succinct (9:36) nonet’s title, Afatsim, translates to Galls, i.e., tissue swellings “often distinguished by a characteristic shape or color” brought about, usually, by parasites.
Composer-Performer Tom Hamilton
… Tom Hamilton has, in the best, traditional sense, the ear of an acoustic instrumentalist and composer, despite his creative participation on the electronic side of events.
Composer-Performer Tom Hamilton
… Tom Hamilton has, in the best, traditional sense, the ear of an acoustic instrumentalist and composer, despite his creative participation on the electronic side of events.
Boulez 2000
The ever-adapting Pierre Boulez hit Carnegie Hall this year in a series called Making Music 2000.
Boulez 2000
The ever-adapting Pierre Boulez hit Carnegie Hall this year in a series called Making Music 2000.
Composed and deComposed: Music Of Our Centuries
Carnegie Hall presented an all-Kurtág concert in their “Making Music 2000” series. Kurtág was supposed to appear and perform, but is, moderator Ara Guzelimian told us, “reluctant to travel.”
Composed and deComposed: Music Of Our Centuries
Carnegie Hall presented an all-Kurtág concert in their “Making Music 2000” series. Kurtág was supposed to appear and perform, but is, moderator Ara Guzelimian told us, “reluctant to travel.”