Music for Several Instruments
Monday, May 30, 2016
Lively music from the Court of Emperor Joseph I
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Part of the fun of Anna Beer's book Songs and Sweet Airs: the Forgotten Women of Classical Music comes after you're done: discov...
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Hyper-dramatic spectacle, from a special place
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Georg Muffat's only surviving sacred work is the Missa in Labore Requies for a huge complement of musicians: two choirs of voices an...
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie
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This is an amazing performance of an amazing work. So cool that you can listen to New York Philharmonic concerts on Soundcloud .
Fugitive pieces
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It took me longer that normal to get through Anna Beer's new book Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music . Thi...
The Birth of the Cool, Mozart Division
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So who's the coolest performer ever? Sinatra, in about 1953 with Nelson Riddle? How about Miles Davis in 1959, or better yet Bill Ev...
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Giving pattern to the spectacle
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I was so impressed when I listened to this music the first time, so I went looking for more music by Cristina Spinei. She hasn't be...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Beautiful, striking and thought-provoking
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One of the highlights of my Christmas last year was the moving Bach Christmas Oratorio choreographed by John Neumeier and danced by Ha...
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