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"...
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde concertos n .7 e n.8/A spell for green corn
"...The Strathclyde concerto n. 7 is dedicated to the double bass and looks like a test in progress, constantly addressed to probable events, in which the instrument plays solitary scores that are widely expressive....
....the...
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,...
Roberto Sierra: Sinfonia n. 4/Fandangos/Carnaval
"...the skill of Sierra lies in the fact that his stylistic formula is a attractive condensation of music, not rhetorical, tending to the exaltation of some timbral colors (the usual good combinations of sounds...
Bright Sheng: Blazing Mirage / The Song and Dance of Tears / Colors of...
".....Sheng features three orchestral compositions that move in the same perspective, namely to drag you into a stylistic and geographical whirlwind, without any physical and consequential movement. The romantic strings with Mahler's charismatic smell...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
