Articles tagged 'Dvořák'

Dvořák’s Prophecy, Shostakovich as Cure and Beethoven in Boston

Should you read one book on music this year, then this is the one.

Dvořák’s Prophecy, Shostakovich as Cure and Beethoven in Boston

Should you read one book on music this year, then this is the one.

String Theory 38: Nineteen String Quartets

Two quartets deliver a seven-installment series by Kalabis.

String Theory 38: Nineteen String Quartets

Two quartets deliver a seven-installment series by Kalabis.

Used Bin Troll Tweets W.

A modest perplexing explosion as a small, nervous troupe gives life to various French texts while playing.

Used Bin Troll Tweets W.

A modest perplexing explosion as a small, nervous troupe gives life to various French texts while playing.

String Theory 22: Ensembles with Piano

Plowright and the Szymanowski Quartet offer a second release of Polish chamber music.

String Theory 22: Ensembles with Piano

Plowright and the Szymanowski Quartet offer a second release of Polish chamber music.

Composer haunts in Stuttgart, Berlin, Prague

A recent trip allowed for some exploring in Stuttgart, Berlin and Prague.

Composer haunts in Stuttgart, Berlin, Prague

A recent trip allowed for some exploring in Stuttgart, Berlin and Prague.

Mostly Symphonies 27.

I’ve previously expressed impatience with Mahler’s First, however, this release bucks the trend doubly. First, this 2004 live performance is bright and energetic. Second, perhaps because this is a Hungarian effort and the symphony’s five-movement incarnation originally premiered in Budapest, Kocsis restores the Blumine movement.

Mostly Symphonies 27.

I’ve previously expressed impatience with Mahler’s First, however, this release bucks the trend doubly. First, this 2004 live performance is bright and energetic. Second, perhaps because this is a Hungarian effort and the symphony’s five-movement incarnation originally premiered in Budapest, Kocsis restores the Blumine movement.

Used Bin Troll Tweets G.

What’s wrong? I’m starting to like everything. Perhaps I just like the piano.

Used Bin Troll Tweets G.

What’s wrong? I’m starting to like everything. Perhaps I just like the piano.

Anomalies Pleasant and Surprising

Berio may have been the postwar generation’s most sentimental if not most wistful composer. Unlike many of his peers, he acknowledged music’s history and would freely adapt, orchestrate and reinterpret the music of others, as well as his own.

Anomalies Pleasant and Surprising

Berio may have been the postwar generation’s most sentimental if not most wistful composer. Unlike many of his peers, he acknowledged music’s history and would freely adapt, orchestrate and reinterpret the music of others, as well as his own.

Mostly Symphonies

Tal’s six tightly coiled symphonies excite like no other covered here.

Mostly Symphonies

Tal’s six tightly coiled symphonies excite like no other covered here.

Through a Format Darkly

I propose to discuss how the compact disc’s (perhaps) successor, the Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD), sounds not at its full-fledged best but rather in terms of its compatibility via a two-channel, CD-only system.

Through a Format Darkly

I propose to discuss how the compact disc’s (perhaps) successor, the Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD), sounds not at its full-fledged best but rather in terms of its compatibility via a two-channel, CD-only system.

Random Noise 2

Russia and the USA, Shostakovich and Feldman

Random Noise 2

Russia and the USA, Shostakovich and Feldman

Genesis of a CD: Dvorak Day Concert

On Saturday afternoon, September 13, 1997, a statue of the great Czech composer Antonín Dvorak was dedicated at 17th Street near 2nd Avenue, in Stuyvesant Square Park, New York City.

Genesis of a CD: Dvorak Day Concert

On Saturday afternoon, September 13, 1997, a statue of the great Czech composer Antonín Dvorak was dedicated at 17th Street near 2nd Avenue, in Stuyvesant Square Park, New York City.