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...
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...
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...
Luis Tinoco: Round Time
Luìs Tinoco (1969) è un compositore portoghese di cui si conoscevano discograficamente alcuni lavori da camera, sparsi tra raccolte compilative sui compositori portoghesi tra cui dei quintetti ai fiati (soprattutto "Light - distance, "O...
Oscar Naxos 2012
Come stato ampiamente discusso in passato su questo blog, la musica americana del primo novecento dopo aver formato le sue basi stilistiche, pian piano si è arricchita dei nuovi flussi migratori causati da varie...
David Robert Coleman: Starry Night
Coleman's Zwiegespräch, for solo viola, with an excellent performance by Felix Schwartz, provides a musical "habitat" that suggests the Dorian Gray's dialogues in front of his bad image embodied in the painting: a perfect...
Katrin Zenz: Cage – Complete works for flute vol. 2
In the second volume of works for flute dedicated to Cage, flutist Katrin Zenz confronts solo themes and especially those for the dynamics of the flute with three or more elements. Dealing with the...
Ned Rorem: Piano album I/Six Friends
".....Between calculated joy and realism of lived experience, with a natural musical depth without any mysticism, the thumbnails of "The Piano Album I/ Six Friends", played by the talented Carolyn Enger, run precious, making...
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...
Áskell Masson: Kammersinfónia / Elja / Ymni / Maes Howe
"....Masson is very special composer who uses the general principles of atonality and twelve-tone series by injecting into writing powerful doses of Icelandic folklore: this mixture generates an unique mosaic of sound, with powerful...
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Festival Archipel 2025
Inutile ribadire come l'Archipel, uno dei principali festival di musica in Svizzera che si tiene a Ginevra, abbia modificato le sue vesti nel tempo....
