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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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 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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 Nowhere on the CD box or in the liner notes does it say who arranged these pieces by Claude Bolling for three strings (violin and cello... |
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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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 This disc is another in Delos’s series of reissues from the catalog of the defunct Russian Disc label, of which I have already reviewed several. In... |
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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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 This well-conceived, received, conducted, and recorded cycle of the Schubert Symphonies is a reissue from 1997. Essentials of recent Schubert scholarship were already in place at... |
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 There is little that bugs me more than when booklet notes begin by invidious comparisons. Such is the case with this disc, where the opening paragraphs... |
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 This latest installment in Dutton’s invaluable—and seemingly exhaustive—survey of Richard Arnell’s large catalogue opens with two works from his precociously prolific early-20s and closes with two... |
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This massive set, containing the entire official Wagnerian canon, consists of DVDs previously issued as individual operas but here assembled in a convenient box measuring 5”... |
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 If you were around during the late 1940s you almost had to be aware of the Sabre Dance from Khachaturian’s ballet, Gayne (as it was spelled... |
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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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 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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