Italian Vacation 14.

To say Aldo Clementi uses canons, is like saying Wagner wrote operas or that Beethoven was good at variations.

Armchair Operas 6.

Eighty sluggish minutes dramatize three months in Bruckner’s life. The insecure 43-year-old spent the summer of 1867 at Bad Kreuzen wrestling with a decision: to leave Linz and seek his fortune in Vienna as a composer, or journey to Mexico.

String Theory 3: Viols and Violas

What are the odds that we’d have two shakes at one Aperghis opus?

Album Tweets 7.

Vespro is a collection / résumé.

Words Fail Me 8.

Gesualdo’s wrenching chromatic harmonies are apparent enough — everybody cites them.