Elements Eternal: Gryphon Trio plays Canadian composers
Even if today it is truly difficult to scandalize with certain methods, it is also true that the process of renovation of classical music might know no pause: the compositions given by Canadian composers...
Peteris Vasks: Flute Concerto
Flute Concerto proves that Vasks not only is one of the most prominent figures in the field of choral music, but also in the other classical segments (from instrumental concerts to chamber music and...
Armenian piano music
Mikael Ayrapetyan is an Armenian pianist with a specific goal: to deliver hidden gems of the Armenian classical repertoire. In this collection, he plays a series of beautiful compositions for solo piano, in chronological...
William Bolcom: Piano Music
Spesso ci capita di criticare coloro che in musica hanno seguito un percorso generazionalista. Si tratta di compositori o musicisti che hanno vagliato in lungo e in largo le possibilità di inserirsi stilisticamente in...
Christopher Rouse: Seeing/Kabir Padavali
“Seeing” is probably the best piece by Christopher Rouse that refers to one area of his artistic personality that has not been fully exploited, i.e. his interest in the quotation. Rouse’s composition constantly alerts...
Ross Harris: Symphony n. 5/Violin Concerto
Ross Harris' fifth symphony is probably his masterpiece, a very different piece from the previous ones (almost a dramaturgy) and written as a tribute to the Hungarian poet Panni Palásti, a refugee from the...
Sofia Gubaidulina: Complete Guitar Works
The first collection in cd of compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina devoted entirely to works for guitar contains older and solo compositions for the acoustic guitar plus new compositions that unfold in combination with other...
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde concertos n .7 e n.8/A spell for green corn
"...The Strathclyde concerto n. 7 is dedicated to the double bass and looks like a test in progress, constantly addressed to probable events, in which the instrument plays solitary scores that are widely expressive....
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Il Latvian Radio Choir: su Toivo Tulev
Nel sistema delle credenze giapponesi ve n'è una particolarmente avvertita ed ascoltata: il wabi-sabi è una constatazione della bellezza della vita che malinconicamente sa di essere evanescente, perché non permanente; tale prescrizione buddista riempie...
Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral works vol. 1
"In the paranatural world of Hosokawa we find the suspensive instinct of a part of the artistic personality of Ligeti and Xenasis combined with Eastern religious sense and a distorted lens of the classicism...