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...
Oscar su Naxos 2011
Il consueto riepilogo dei prodotti migliori che l'etichetta guida americana (la Naxos Records) ha pubblicato nel 2011, non può prescindere da una attenta selezione che dev'essere fatta tra le righe delle pubblicazioni, cercando di...
Katrin Zenz: Cage’s Works for flute vol. 1
Katrin Zenz is enamored of the pragmatism of sounds. She teaches and plays flute in Greece and after many experiences with the Greek classical tradition and the Wandelweiser group she realized that it was...
Leonard Bernstein/Tan Dun: Touches and traces
Warren Lee's piano recital highlights a common matrix between the music of Leonard Bernstein and Tan Dun: the French music legacy of Chopin and Debussy. But the color and the moods of this music...
Paul Moravec: Violin concerto
In Moravec's violin concerto the score given to the violinist Maria Bachmann is long and essential, and much of the pathos of the concert is determined by her skills; revised in 2013, the Violin...
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...
Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no. 48
Hovhaness gave to his symphonies a face perpetually fresh, where the tradition of post-romantic Western music (with his best weapon, the melody) was violated by the intrusion of Byzantine polyphony, the modality of classical...
Eleanor Cory: Things Are, String quartet n. 3 and other compositions
An invitation to rediscover the compositions of Eleanor Cory arises from the consideration of the beauty of her musical interlockings: she emphasizes the essential role of the instruments used in the composition, she builds...
Margaret Brouwer: Shattered
"...the idea of Brouwer was to kill any discussion about the style; the importance attributed to the type of writing was overwhelmed by the concept of "development" of the compositional themes. In this aspect...
Askell Masson: Music for clarinet
One of the particularities highlighted by Askell Masson has been to combine modern techniques for the clarinet with impressionistic writing. Naxos Records is releasing an exciting and almost complete volume of recordings in which...
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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...
