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Over 400 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays in this issue! |
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 Oddly enough, back in Fanfare 29:2, and as recently as 33:5, I reviewed two albums containing material duplicated on the current Centaur CD. The first, titled... |
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This CD from 2005 captures two obviously congenial musical colleagues from the University of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in mostly 20th-century repertoire for viola and cello. The... |
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 As regular readers know, I’m not a big fan of the hardcore in modern music. But not wanting to hold the execution before the trial, I... |
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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... |
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 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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,... |
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 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... |
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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... |
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