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21 interviews, and over 475 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and downloads in this 640-page issue! |
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Welcome to Fanfare, the Magazine for Serious Record Collectors. If you are not yet a Fanfare subscriber, you may browse a generous sampling of recently published articles on this site. New articles are added daily. Subscribers may view the complete contents of these issues in the Archive. |
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 Music for children has become an important niche in Daniel Dorff’s output. It is a tricky genre. Britten and Prokofiev managed to create music for young...
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 Although I very much enjoyed speaking with pianist Vassily Primakov in preparation for his first feature appearance in this magazine ( Fanfare 32: 6), at the...
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 The baroque cantata went through a period of evolution before it reached its zenith in the examples left to posterity by Bach. Placing opera and oratorio...
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 One of the great joys I get from being a Fanfare contributor is the opportunity to herald lesser known artists and orchestras through positive reviews in...
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 In his 1961 essay “Style and ‘Styles’ in Music,” Roger Sessions draws the distinction between stylistic range and stylistic refinement, and identifies with the former the...
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 As some Fanfare readers will know, I run the label Toccata Classics, which specializes in unfamiliar repertoire. One of my house-rules is not to record music...
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 Music for children has become an important niche in Daniel Dorff’s output. It is a tricky genre. Britten and Prokofiev managed to create music for young...
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 Although I very much enjoyed speaking with pianist Vassily Primakov in preparation for his first feature appearance in this magazine ( Fanfare 32: 6), at the...
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In the 20-plus years that I have been contributing to this publication, I’ve noticed a huge sea change. When I started, Fanfare’s emphasis seemed to be...
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 This is not the first time Marc-André Hamelin has been competing with himself for a position on my Want List. And if his recording of his...
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 The baroque cantata went through a period of evolution before it reached its zenith in the examples left to posterity by Bach. Placing opera and oratorio...
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 This is less a Hall of Fame candidate than a candidate for reappraisal. To my mind it is very good and worth any collector’s consideration. I...
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 One of the great joys I get from being a Fanfare contributor is the opportunity to herald lesser known artists and orchestras through positive reviews in...
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 In his 1961 essay “Style and ‘Styles’ in Music,” Roger Sessions draws the distinction between stylistic range and stylistic refinement, and identifies with the former the...
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 In this Wagner year, the Wagner industry moves on and Barry Millington, editor of The Wagner Journal and author of three other recent books about the...
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 Toscanini’s career and personality present us with many conundrums. If he thought himself just “an honest musician” and not the greatest conductor in the world, why...
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Alcoholics are supposed to remember their first drink. Jazz fans such as I remember when they were first exposed to one of their idols. I heard...
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 Once upon a time I put together a program of short American pieces for a few friends and was struck by the number of the composers...
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 This is the fourth in BIS’s series of discs in which the Taipei Chinese Orchestra is paired with prominent Western soloists. Its predecessors featured saxophonist Claude...
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Arturo Toscanini is largely remembered for his vast catalog of recordings made in the later part of his career for RCA, with an ensemble specifically created...
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The title of this album, La Voie triomphale ( The Triumphal Way ), is described in the program notes as “the straight axis leading through central...
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 This is a strange yet wonderful disc of music from the Middle East and environs, or influenced by the same. In fact, the only non-Middle Eastern...
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 Michael Rowlett, Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Mississippi, is one heck of a player. From the very first piece, one is struck by...
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 Jennifer Koh’s first installment in her series, “Bach & Beyond,” presents two partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach in the company of Eugène Ysaÿe’s Second Solo Sonata...
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It might be that “Zeit,” the German word for “time,” and “Geist,” the German word for “spirit,” translate easily, but when they are conjoined into “Zeitgeist,”...
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 Soprano Kathrin Graf, now 70 years old and quite possibly retired—the last activity I could find for her online was from 2004—has made very few recordings,...
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The Tower of London actually contains two chapels, one to St. John the Evangelist and the other the grimly appropriate St. Peter in Chains. They have...
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 The subtitle is “A sequence of music for Lent, St. Joseph, and the Annunciation.” St. Joseph (March 19) and the Annunciation (March 25) are feast days...
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 Subtitled “Music from the Medici Codex of 1518,” this comes on the heels of “The Medici Wedding” by the Ring Ensemble on Alba 154, which duplicates...
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La Tour Baroque Duo is Tim Blackmore on recorders and harpsichord and Michel Cardin on lute and theorbo. They are based at the University of Moncton...
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 What is Georg Solti’s place in the pantheon of podium titans? He gained celebrity when he led the first complete recording of Wagner’s Ring to be...
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 My colleagues Peter Burwasser and Raymond Tuttle have already reviewed this disc in the previous issue, and I have no complaints about their views. I just...
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