Bart Scribner worked in libraries, banks and publishing until he preferred not to. After squats in public buildings, he now gets paid for it — as caretaker of an abandoned power station deemed too costly to go online. Only a lighthouse would be preferable.
Bart Scribner
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What, More Words? 2.
This Orlando Consort disc interleaves Medieval works (its usual beat) and current efforts that refer to them.
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What, More Words? 2.
This Orlando Consort disc interleaves Medieval works (its usual beat) and current efforts that refer to them.
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What, More Words? 1.
Purcell’s incidental music for the stage shows genius paying the bills, so it makes rough sense that Aradia Ensemble is clipped and businesslike.
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What, More Words? 1.
Purcell’s incidental music for the stage shows genius paying the bills, so it makes rough sense that Aradia Ensemble is clipped and businesslike.
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Words Fail Me 9.
I can admire Wilson’s results without buying his thesis, that Farnaby (1562-1640) belongs with Byrd, Bull and Gibbons.
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Words Fail Me 9.
I can admire Wilson’s results without buying his thesis, that Farnaby (1562-1640) belongs with Byrd, Bull and Gibbons.
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Words Fail Me 8.
Gesualdo’s wrenching chromatic harmonies are apparent enough — everybody cites them.
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Words Fail Me 8.
Gesualdo’s wrenching chromatic harmonies are apparent enough — everybody cites them.
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Words Fail Me 7.
This is the only all-Parsons (c. 1530-1572) disc around, and it touches several bases. (He drowned mysteriously, after which the scores got scant attention.)
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Words Fail Me 7.
This is the only all-Parsons (c. 1530-1572) disc around, and it touches several bases. (He drowned mysteriously, after which the scores got scant attention.)
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Words Fail Me 6.
Avoid this Dowland sampler unless you approached the English Orpheus via Sting’s hit album.
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Words Fail Me 6.
Avoid this Dowland sampler unless you approached the English Orpheus via Sting’s hit album.
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Words Fail Me 5.
Mackintosh fronts the Purcell Quartet, Dreyfus leads viol consort Phantasm and Haugsand has recorded decisive Bach.
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Words Fail Me 5.
Mackintosh fronts the Purcell Quartet, Dreyfus leads viol consort Phantasm and Haugsand has recorded decisive Bach.
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Words Fail Me 3.
For years Rangell has opened recitals with a 17th-century piece, so his interest is no whim.
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Words Fail Me 3.
For years Rangell has opened recitals with a 17th-century piece, so his interest is no whim.
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Words Fail Me 2.
Late Liszt is terrain as well as timeline — the bleak, haunted miniatures that glimpsed the future.
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Words Fail Me 2.
Late Liszt is terrain as well as timeline — the bleak, haunted miniatures that glimpsed the future.
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Shostakovich States: “Masters are playing.”
Formed in 1922 as the Moscow Conservatory Quartet, the Beethoven got its permanent name in 1931 along with recognition as the top Soviet quartet — seven years before Shostakovich wrote his first.
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Shostakovich States: “Masters are playing.”
Formed in 1922 as the Moscow Conservatory Quartet, the Beethoven got its permanent name in 1931 along with recognition as the top Soviet quartet — seven years before Shostakovich wrote his first.