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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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To many, the avant-garde, particularly in jazz, suggests a music that is strident, aggressive, perhaps even disordered, a music that makes unexpected demands on listeners, either... |
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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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Here’s a 2002 disc not reviewed in Fanfare, and in precious few other music magazines, for two reasons. One, it is a homemade CD, recorded in... |
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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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 In the years after Handel’s death in 1759, Messiah was seen as the epitome of the oratorio genre. The monumental Westminster Abbey Handel commemoration in 1784... |
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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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 This is not a particularly new recording, having been taped in December 2001, in the LSU Recital Hall at Louisiana State University. It is, however, a... |
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Here we have two very serious and heavy cello sonatas, written approximately 12 years apart, and oddly the younger man’s composition (Jongen) preceded the older. The... |
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 In the years after Handel’s death in 1759, Messiah was seen as the epitome of the oratorio genre. The monumental Westminster Abbey Handel commemoration in 1784... |
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 I bought Duets with Spanish Guitar on cassette in the late 1970s, and even then it was almost two decades old. (This explains, at least in... |
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 This is a fine book. A compendium of biographies of 50 leading composers, it is a worthwhile read and a useful reference. With an instantly recognizable... |
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 For a serious music student or practicing jazz musician with a good grounding in harmony and theory, this book will be a breeze, albeit very instructive... |
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To many, the avant-garde, particularly in jazz, suggests a music that is strident, aggressive, perhaps even disordered, a music that makes unexpected demands on listeners, either... |
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