Thanks to the wonderful benevolence of public education, the mainstream media, and corporations that have shoved musical culture back up the social ladder to the realm...
There is a revealing comment in Andrea Bacchetti’s memoir of Luciano Berio, included in this CD’s booklet, where the then-teenaged pianist—he met and began an informal...
Andrea Bacchetti’s written introduction spells out his close association with the composer of these pieces. There is much to admire here, certainly, but Bacchetti does not...
I enjoyed Andrea Bacchetti’s previous Bach release (see my review in Fanfare 33:3) and the same strengths are in evidence here: a sensitivity to dynamics (without...
The pianist Andrea Bacchetti (not his rugby-playing namesake) met Luciano Berio when he was around 11 and worked, studied, and played music with him until Berio,...
Before I get started, I have a few complaints about program notes to get off my chest. The following are generalizations (but particularly pertinent to this...
If variety is the spice of life, percussionist Bob McCormick’s certainly hasn’t been bland. He’s played everything: popular, jazz, classical, both light and serious. He served...
I had the opportunity to speak with Julian Wachner, the first installment of whose complete choral music has just been released by Naxos in its “American...
It might seem improbable that a recording of Beethoven piano trios could have the adjective “new” applied to each of the included works, but this is...
Nikolai Roslavets (1881–1944) had the supreme misfortune, like so many others, to live during the nightmares of the Soviet system. His music is oddly schizophrenic stylistically....
Carolyn Stuart and Svetozar Ivanov’s recital of music by Nikolai Roslavets, a Russian composer who’d been branded, punished, exiled, and forgotten by the Soviet government, gives...
