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...
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...
Jan Van der Roost: Sinfonia Hungarica/From Ancient Times
"......Van der Roost teaches us how the idea of the poverty of the wind band's sounds (due to the lack of an official string section) is an unreal and absurd dogma. "From Ancient Times"...
Nicolas Bacri
Uno dei migliori e più interessanti frutti del polistilismo contemporaneo è il compositore francese Nicolas Bacri (1961): partito da studi seriali riflessi nelle sue prime opere, Bacri ad un certo punto ha abbandonato la...
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...
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...
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...
Thierry Miroglio: World of Percussion
Thierry Miroglio's musical exuberance is the driver for some modern compositions for percussion that cover a wide span of time in which flows a part of the history of contemporary percussion. With the support...
Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concertos nos. 5 and 6
"......From the musical point of view, in Strathclyde n. 5 the classical influences are mixed without slavishly provide those ancient models, the feeling evocated in the three movements of piece is the instrumental "strangeness"...
José Luis Greco: Geografias del silencio
Geografias del silencio contains some of José Luis Greco's finest compositions, since you can see in them that vital process that follows the composition with all its trappings and influences. Forget Cage's silence (the...