Articles by Year: La Folia, 2007.

Boo Hoo

The End Is Near! The End Is Nearer! The End Was Last Week!

Boo Hoo

The End Is Near! The End Is Nearer! The End Was Last Week!

Words Fail Me 2.

Late Liszt is terrain as well as timeline — the bleak, haunted miniatures that glimpsed the future.

Words Fail Me 2.

Late Liszt is terrain as well as timeline — the bleak, haunted miniatures that glimpsed the future.

EA Bucket 6: Historic Releases

From the mid-1960s onward, Lilburn’s output was predominantly electro-acoustic. He became fascinated with the medium, characterizing his work with it as akin to painting.

EA Bucket 6: Historic Releases

From the mid-1960s onward, Lilburn’s output was predominantly electro-acoustic. He became fascinated with the medium, characterizing his work with it as akin to painting.

Words Fail Me 1.

A major release.

Words Fail Me 1.

A major release.

Pièces de Clavecin 2: Jean-Philippe Rameau

The composer, rumored to have been gaunt and short-tempered, earned greater attention for his 1722 Treatise on Harmony than his music or organ playing had by then achieved.

Pièces de Clavecin 2: Jean-Philippe Rameau

The composer, rumored to have been gaunt and short-tempered, earned greater attention for his 1722 Treatise on Harmony than his music or organ playing had by then achieved.

EA Bucket 5.

In our post-everything era, we seem to be awash in historical electroacoustic music in large measure created in pre-digital days, with and without instruments, and again in large measure, reflecting chaos and sweat.

EA Bucket 5.

In our post-everything era, we seem to be awash in historical electroacoustic music in large measure created in pre-digital days, with and without instruments, and again in large measure, reflecting chaos and sweat.

King John IV of Portugal: Discography of Joao IV (1604-1656)

João IV (1604-1656), King of Portugal, has a place in the record catalogues by virtue of a single work, Crux fidelis. The present effort is a discography of that work, posted on this website because it has proved so difficult to bring to completion.

King John IV of Portugal: Discography of Joao IV (1604-1656)

João IV (1604-1656), King of Portugal, has a place in the record catalogues by virtue of a single work, Crux fidelis. The present effort is a discography of that work, posted on this website because it has proved so difficult to bring to completion.

Touching on This and That

At La Folia’s semi-annual writers’ brunch… I learned that I receive the most mail.

Touching on This and That

At La Folia’s semi-annual writers’ brunch… I learned that I receive the most mail.

A Performer’s Survey of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Part 3

Coming as it does after a virtuoso variation, XXI feels doubly poignant.

A Performer’s Survey of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Part 3

Coming as it does after a virtuoso variation, XXI feels doubly poignant.

Goldberg Variations at Steinway Hall, Saturday, April 28, 2007

The smell of flowers filled the room. I quickly tried out the American Steinway that would see me through the Goldbergs.

Goldberg Variations at Steinway Hall, Saturday, April 28, 2007

The smell of flowers filled the room. I quickly tried out the American Steinway that would see me through the Goldbergs.

Pièces de Clavecin 1: Francois Couperin

The first musical Couperin was a farmer, but his progeny, male and female, taught French royalty and kept an organ post in the family for 173 years at the Church of Saint-Gervais in Paris.

Pièces de Clavecin 1: Francois Couperin

The first musical Couperin was a farmer, but his progeny, male and female, taught French royalty and kept an organ post in the family for 173 years at the Church of Saint-Gervais in Paris.

Ferneyhough & Stockhausen: Grubby and Gruppen

Compared to his previous compositions, Ferneyhough’s Shadowtime is easy going. It’s almost as if his California tenure exposed him too thoroughly to Desperate Housewives and American Idol.

Ferneyhough & Stockhausen: Grubby and Gruppen

Compared to his previous compositions, Ferneyhough’s Shadowtime is easy going. It’s almost as if his California tenure exposed him too thoroughly to Desperate Housewives and American Idol.