(Dis)Arrangements 16: Shostakovich

With the addition of a percussion part, this is a bit more than just a piano reduction.

Used Bin Troll Tweets NN.

This may very well be the future.

String Theory 18: Bundled Quartets and a few Trios

I imagine that Gorton enjoys a good joke. In Fosdyke Wash, a sighing cello part is marked “like distant agricultural machinery.” At that point, the cello sounds like a mewling chainsaw at a far remove.

Personal Discoveries: Mieczysław Weinberg

For this needful listener, ECM 2368/69, with Gidon Kremer as soloist and concert master of the rather immodestly named Kremerata Baltica, arrives in timely fashion as a Year’s Best.

Armchair Operas and Amusements 9.

In Svoboda’s wide-ranging homage, original bits may be recostumed or might lurk beneath contemporaneous texts.

String Theory 3: Viols and Violas

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