Music for Several Instruments
Monday, June 27, 2016
Authentic Anthony
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On the back of this new CD by Richard Casey, The Piano Music of Anthony Burgess , there's a great picture of the author/composer ...
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Rich and ripe music for violin and piano
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Until this disc showed up I knew Georgy Catoire only through Marc-Andre Hamelin's 1999 Hyperion disc of piano music (re-issued on He...
Friday, June 24, 2016
A major masterpiece from an important composer
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Rebecca Clarke isn't quite a household name, but her 1919 Sonata for Viola and Piano has certainly hit a chord with the record-buy...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
A personal and progressive sound
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Every once in a while you come across a composer whose music sounds completely assured, with an obvious confidence in her abilities, an...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Shadowy fancies
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What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble...
Recollected in Tranquillity
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In the Preface to his Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth wrote a famous passage that defines Romantic art: I have said that poetry is...
Monday, June 6, 2016
Great instrument; great music-making
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Peter Sheppard Skaerved's series The Great Violins on Athene began with the May 2016 release of a well-received double-CD Telemann d...
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