Articles tagged 'Rachmaninov'
Used Bin Troll Tweets EEE.
Three inventive choral works expertly performed.
Piano Factory 27.
Van Raat wraps unfamiliar French piano music around a Boulez premiere.
Piano Factory 27.
Van Raat wraps unfamiliar French piano music around a Boulez premiere.
Used Bin Troll Tweets HH.
Reicha’s 57 dawdle upon an insipid ditty. It is a lot of work for player and audience to make it to the end.
Used Bin Troll Tweets HH.
Reicha’s 57 dawdle upon an insipid ditty. It is a lot of work for player and audience to make it to the end.
Piano Factory 18.
If you like your Bach straight up, then Chan’s minimalist constellations will not amuse. Chan doesn’t provide the familiar melody, but instead organizes or jumbles the chorale’s pitch materials into chowder, deeply obscuring Bach’s poignant original.
Piano Factory 18.
If you like your Bach straight up, then Chan’s minimalist constellations will not amuse. Chan doesn’t provide the familiar melody, but instead organizes or jumbles the chorale’s pitch materials into chowder, deeply obscuring Bach’s poignant original.
(Dis)Arrangements 6. / Piano Factory 14.
Bach and Scarlatti on piano are intrinsically arrangements, music relocated to an instrument unanticipated by their composers. Some 19th and 20th-century composer-pianists found Bach and Scarlatti too spindly for the ivories. They added notes and fleshed out chords, and took other liberties such as composing new voices or adjusting harmonies.
(Dis)Arrangements 6. / Piano Factory 14.
Bach and Scarlatti on piano are intrinsically arrangements, music relocated to an instrument unanticipated by their composers. Some 19th and 20th-century composer-pianists found Bach and Scarlatti too spindly for the ivories. They added notes and fleshed out chords, and took other liberties such as composing new voices or adjusting harmonies.
Pièces de Clavecin 8.
Hardly noble, Royer’s Allemande is a heavy-footed ogre. Rockets launch in Vertigo. Le Marche des Scythes is among the most extroverted and virtuosic keyboard pieces of the age.
Pièces de Clavecin 8.
Hardly noble, Royer’s Allemande is a heavy-footed ogre. Rockets launch in Vertigo. Le Marche des Scythes is among the most extroverted and virtuosic keyboard pieces of the age.
Of Light through the Clouds
The Rands Concerto is, contrary to its title, much more a series of interactions between piano and different sections of the orchestra.
Of Light through the Clouds
The Rands Concerto is, contrary to its title, much more a series of interactions between piano and different sections of the orchestra.
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),
Archeological Dig
Waste not, want not. I wrote these reviews for TAS about four years ago…
Archeological Dig
Waste not, want not. I wrote these reviews for TAS about four years ago…
Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff
I am generally not the adventurous sort, tending to abide by Voltaire’s alleged remark that “marriage is the only adventure for the cowardly.”
Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff
I am generally not the adventurous sort, tending to abide by Voltaire’s alleged remark that “marriage is the only adventure for the cowardly.”