Samuel Adler: Cantos
In queste pagine si è più volte sottolineato come la prospettiva musicale contemporanea proveniente dagli Stati Uniti sia ancora piuttosto distante da quella europea: mentre la prima abbraccia e gioca con i fantasmi del...
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...
Bonifazio Graziani: Adae Oratorium/Filli Prodigi Oratium & Five Motets
In 1650 one of the most envied musical schools in Europe was the Roman one. In this period Giacomo Carissimi and Bonifazio Graziani are essential figures to combine the sense of ecclesiastical institutions with...
Lyell Cresswell: Landscapes of the Soul / Piano Concerto / Concerto for Orchestra and...
"Landscapes of the Soul" is programmatic, it was composed for a project that involved the Italian painter Maurizio Bottarelli in which the aim was to find common ground between music and painting.
A sure point...
Gao Ping: Piano Quintet “Mei Lan Zhu Ju” / The Mountain / 12-Hour Bridge
".....The musical style of Ping and of his composition "The Mountain" are hidden in the filosofy of the travels of Xingjian, reflecting meetings and habits of a people......it is a musical spirit that is...
Jia Daqun: Chamber works
Jia Daqun's music provides a delicate pleasure of listening. It shows a search for common paths between the classical Western music and traditional Chinese music: harmony, timbre and melodies can be shared in a...
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...
Aaron Jay Kernis: Three Flavors/2 movements (with bells)/Superstar Etudes no. 3
In this world premiere recording, Naxos releases Kernis' compositions that develop his chamber repertory; they reflect the current interest of the composer, passing to a form of "timeless" tonal-impressionistic composition, highlighting his most productive...
Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto no.2 e altre nuove composizioni
E' noto che il compositore britannico Peter Maxwell Davies abbia affrontato in maniera piuttosto completa la materia del concerto dividendola per singolo strumento e di come la Naxos abbia oramai ristampato buona parte del...
Osias Wilenski: Oboe Concerto
In Wilenski's composition for oboe you can discern an excellent composition; we have tension, and a direction towards impressionistic melody that shows the beauty of the use of an oboe in an orchestra and...
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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...
