Articles by Year: La Folia, 2011.

Random Noise 28

To pose an obvious question: How do we judge greatness without mediocrities with which to compare?

Random Noise 28

To pose an obvious question: How do we judge greatness without mediocrities with which to compare?

Rameau, présent et absent

Nearly 270 years after its first publication, Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts perpetuate a modest enigma: What sort of ensemble should play them?

Rameau, présent et absent

Nearly 270 years after its first publication, Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts perpetuate a modest enigma: What sort of ensemble should play them?

Nine Plus

The Bruckner obsession is now tempered only slightly.

Nine Plus

The Bruckner obsession is now tempered only slightly.

Mostly Symphonies 17.

Other Thirds — in any version — made little impression until now. But then again, the Wagner nods pass unnoticed.

Mostly Symphonies 17.

Other Thirds — in any version — made little impression until now. But then again, the Wagner nods pass unnoticed.

Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 1.

I’ve postponed covering a stack of relatively recent Nono releases, music impossible to contemplate casually.

Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 1.

I’ve postponed covering a stack of relatively recent Nono releases, music impossible to contemplate casually.

Bruckner’s Mass No. 2

Layton and his recording team get proportions in the Mass as right as anyone’s.

Bruckner’s Mass No. 2

Layton and his recording team get proportions in the Mass as right as anyone’s.

Armchair Operas 7.

Der Mond appeared two years after the runaway hit Carmina Burana, and like most everything Orff penned in its wake, it shares the same beer-hall bravado, diatonic gamut and hammering rhythms.

Armchair Operas 7.

Der Mond appeared two years after the runaway hit Carmina Burana, and like most everything Orff penned in its wake, it shares the same beer-hall bravado, diatonic gamut and hammering rhythms.

Youri Pochtar’s late Liszt

Youri Pochtar boasts an encompassing technique, as well as the intellect to grasp the music’s mercurial turns.

Youri Pochtar’s late Liszt

Youri Pochtar boasts an encompassing technique, as well as the intellect to grasp the music’s mercurial turns.

Mostly Symphonies 16.

A central instigator in the Wiener Aktionismus movement, Nitsch has been celebrated and vilified for events involving paint-splattering, animal disembowelment and nudity.

Mostly Symphonies 16.

A central instigator in the Wiener Aktionismus movement, Nitsch has been celebrated and vilified for events involving paint-splattering, animal disembowelment and nudity.

Eights and Nines

Here is more proof of my unnatural kinship with St. Anton.

Eights and Nines

Here is more proof of my unnatural kinship with St. Anton.

Armchair Operas 6.

Eighty sluggish minutes dramatize three months in Bruckner’s life. The insecure 43-year-old spent the summer of 1867 at Bad Kreuzen wrestling with a decision: to leave Linz and seek his fortune in Vienna as a composer, or journey to Mexico.

Armchair Operas 6.

Eighty sluggish minutes dramatize three months in Bruckner’s life. The insecure 43-year-old spent the summer of 1867 at Bad Kreuzen wrestling with a decision: to leave Linz and seek his fortune in Vienna as a composer, or journey to Mexico.

Pianos Abused: Schubert and Beethoven in New York

The staged entertainment Three Pianos consists of three guys hanging out, knocking back drinks, and stumbling through Schubert’s 1827 Winterreise.

Pianos Abused: Schubert and Beethoven in New York

The staged entertainment Three Pianos consists of three guys hanging out, knocking back drinks, and stumbling through Schubert’s 1827 Winterreise.