Articles by Year: La Folia, 2018.

String Theory 29.

Sauguet knows where consonance lies, but earnestly dallies among ambiguity before resolving.

String Theory 29.

Sauguet knows where consonance lies, but earnestly dallies among ambiguity before resolving.

Gone Fishing

Compared with the vastly superior Carmen, Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles has but one big tune. A highlight of the performance occurred during the overture, when behind the scrim, graceful dancers on wires simulated diving from the top of the stage to the bottom.

Gone Fishing

Compared with the vastly superior Carmen, Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles has but one big tune. A highlight of the performance occurred during the overture, when behind the scrim, graceful dancers on wires simulated diving from the top of the stage to the bottom.

Used Bin Troll Tweets JJ.

An excellent collection of memorials and elegies.

Used Bin Troll Tweets JJ.

An excellent collection of memorials and elegies.

Piano Factory 25.

Liberated from traditional scale passages and gestures, Aperghis’ particular brand of energetic filigree is unfurled across four piano works.

Piano Factory 25.

Liberated from traditional scale passages and gestures, Aperghis’ particular brand of energetic filigree is unfurled across four piano works.

EA Bucket 27.

Using synthesized tones recalling the electronic age’s dawn, Perpetuum Mobile, Zagny’s minimalist four-voice study on cadential figures with wrinkles, takes 24:30 to unspool when all four voices are superimposed.

EA Bucket 27.

Using synthesized tones recalling the electronic age’s dawn, Perpetuum Mobile, Zagny’s minimalist four-voice study on cadential figures with wrinkles, takes 24:30 to unspool when all four voices are superimposed.

String Theory 28.

Plucking introduces the nine plucked string instruments gradually, completing a grid governed by mathematical patterns.

String Theory 28.

Plucking introduces the nine plucked string instruments gradually, completing a grid governed by mathematical patterns.

Used Bin Troll Tweets II.

Carbonelli went to England and latterly sold claret to the royals.

Used Bin Troll Tweets II.

Carbonelli went to England and latterly sold claret to the royals.

Mostly Symphonies 33.

There are countless moments in Plötzlichkeit and La Terre est un Homme where I would not have been surprised if a page turn had transported us to Berg’s Reigen.

Mostly Symphonies 33.

There are countless moments in Plötzlichkeit and La Terre est un Homme where I would not have been surprised if a page turn had transported us to Berg’s Reigen.

Used Bin Troll Tweets HH.

Reicha’s 57 dawdle upon an insipid ditty. It is a lot of work for player and audience to make it to the end.

Used Bin Troll Tweets HH.

Reicha’s 57 dawdle upon an insipid ditty. It is a lot of work for player and audience to make it to the end.

Giuoco delle coppie

You might think that the Italians invented music, such is their constant reassessment of the past.

Giuoco delle coppie

You might think that the Italians invented music, such is their constant reassessment of the past.

Atopos Survey 4.

Atopos curates astonishing collections which must be sought out. Including this installment, we have covered everything that this unfamiliar label has released thus far.

Atopos Survey 4.

Atopos curates astonishing collections which must be sought out. Including this installment, we have covered everything that this unfamiliar label has released thus far.

Armchair Operas and Amusements 14.

Cage and Feldman criticize the river’s flow while standing in the middle of it. They talk about art and music, about creating and teaching, about how things just aren’t what they used to be.

Armchair Operas and Amusements 14.

Cage and Feldman criticize the river’s flow while standing in the middle of it. They talk about art and music, about creating and teaching, about how things just aren’t what they used to be.