Showing posts with label Stravinsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stravinsky. Show all posts
Saturday, April 22, 2017

A mixed bag: from oddness to greatness

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This is the second 6-CD set from Profil of recordings made by Yevgeny Mravinsky with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, largely live ...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Stravinsky with a distinctive British sound

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This is the second new Stravinsky choral disc I've come across this summer; it's due for release on August 26, 2016. When the ...

Exquisite, uncompromising late music by Stravinsky

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I recently read Edward Said's insightful book On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain , and now I keep coming across ...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Suzuki's Stravinsky

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This is a disc I was so excited to see. I've been a huge fan of the epic Bach project on BIS by Masaaki Suzuki with his amazing Bach ...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Superb Stravinsky, with a light touch

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From February 3, 2015: After loving the dazzling recordings that Chandos released of Prokofiev and Haydn Piano Concertos with British o...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

A special man in a special time and place

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September 17, 2014: Stravinsky may have been a towering genius and the greatest 20th century composer, but he was also an odd duck. The...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Have fun with this toy at home

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From February 25, 2010: I found Phillip Huscher's interview with conductor Pierre Boulez, included in the booklet of this new C...