Spanish guitar music
In relazione al carattere espresso dalla musica del suo paese, Albeniz dicharava: "... la musica è un pò infantile, semplice, vivace, ma alla fine, la gente, il nostro popolo spagnolo è qualcosa che si...
GE Gan-Ru: Shangai Reminiscences
"Shanghai Reminiscences" shows the major instrumental effort straining to reproduce a sort of imaginative autobiography in music of Ge Gan-Ru: we listen to the sound of the first lessons on the violin, the sound...
Jack Gallagher: Symphony n. 2 “Ascendant”/Quiet Reflections
The "American" musical structures of Jack Gallagher's compositions seem to show the influence of his mentor Siegmeister's orchestral composition, his mentor, but really they have many reflexive features of a special national identity; they...
John McCabe: Composer, Pianist, Conductor
"John McCabe: Composer, pianist, conductor" is Naxos' attempt to make a synthetic exploration of the music of one of the most respected composer of England, a kind of brief collection divided between his three...
Jacques Hétu: Chamber works for strings (complete)
Naxos fills a gap by publishing the complete work of Hétu on chamber strings, where you can admire the "regularized strangeness" that characterized his style. In every hidden corner of the score, it reveals...
Nils Vigeland: Piano Music (Life sketches)
"Piano Music (Life Sketches)" contains many souls of American modern music, but Vigeland also shows different paths: by listening to the recent compositions for piano one has the feeling of being distant from those...
Thierry Lancino: Violin concerto
In the Lancino's musical expression you can always see the creation of an apocalyptic image, a reflection that carries within itself a sense of confusion and convulsion for designed events.
The "Violin concerto" is excellent,...
Canadian Chamber Music – Sounds of our time, Music for cello and piano
"The Canadian Classics series is enriched by another interesting chapter devoted to writing for cello and piano, with compositions by Canadian young composers. The performers are the duo Rachel Mercer (cello) and Angela Park...
Carter Pann: The piano’s 12 sides/The bills/The cheese grater/Piano concerto n.1
"Pann, which received a Grammy nomination in 2000 for his first piano concerto, is a sensitive composer, in search of a musical impressionism built without compromise and rhetoric, with constant changes of style: the...
Ursula Mamlok: String quartet No.1/Polyphony I/Confluences and others
Naxos will publish the first monographic cd of Ursula Mamlok in the American Classics' series, that focuses on a beautiful concert at Kammermusicsalle Berlin in February 2013, in which almost all of the best...
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Zakir Hussain
A chi non è in grado di cogliere le sfumature importanti della tabla opporrei di approfondire sull'antefatto e la lecture di Zakir Hussein ad...
