Articles tagged 'Bach'
String Theory 23. / EA Bucket 24: Violin, sometimes with tape
There will be those who get the pun in Rynes’ title, but I wasn’t one of them. Rynes’ nine-item program presents old and new friends.
String Theory 23. / EA Bucket 24: Violin, sometimes with tape
There will be those who get the pun in Rynes’ title, but I wasn’t one of them. Rynes’ nine-item program presents old and new friends.
Used Bin Troll Tweets T.
A lonely story lurks within 12 sections, perhaps Sephardic, Moravian or older, with nods to jazz, Gertrude Stein and Joaquín Rodrigo.
Used Bin Troll Tweets T.
A lonely story lurks within 12 sections, perhaps Sephardic, Moravian or older, with nods to jazz, Gertrude Stein and Joaquín Rodrigo.
Piano Factory 16. / (Dis)Arrangements 9: Liszt and Wagner
Liszt’s last pieces reflect little interest in pyrotechnics or showy glamour. They are curious about harmony and the spiritual world; some touch on historical subjects, but most all are reflective, even world-weary.
Piano Factory 16. / (Dis)Arrangements 9: Liszt and Wagner
Liszt’s last pieces reflect little interest in pyrotechnics or showy glamour. They are curious about harmony and the spiritual world; some touch on historical subjects, but most all are reflective, even world-weary.
Used Bin Troll Tweets O.
At least it’s good to see more Bacewicz on record.
String Theory 14: 28 Quartets, etc.
The 1918 quartet titled Rosengaardsspil arranges Classical and Romantic gestures like appliques on faded wallpaper. Langgaard dashed off the Italian Scherzo in 30 minutes on the morning of October 21, 1950.
String Theory 14: 28 Quartets, etc.
The 1918 quartet titled Rosengaardsspil arranges Classical and Romantic gestures like appliques on faded wallpaper. Langgaard dashed off the Italian Scherzo in 30 minutes on the morning of October 21, 1950.
Piano Factory 15: Micro and Macro
Here are nine renditions of ten Holt’s most famous opus. Built from multi-measure cells which can be repeated ad lib, this may be the longest work constructed on an unbroken stream of quintuplets. It is also a potent dose of B-flat minor.
Piano Factory 15: Micro and Macro
Here are nine renditions of ten Holt’s most famous opus. Built from multi-measure cells which can be repeated ad lib, this may be the longest work constructed on an unbroken stream of quintuplets. It is also a potent dose of B-flat minor.
Used Bin Troll Tweets L.
Gorgeous sound and stupendous playing in this sundry program of solo viola da gamba pieces.
Used Bin Troll Tweets L.
Gorgeous sound and stupendous playing in this sundry program of solo viola da gamba pieces.
(Dis)Arrangements 6. / Piano Factory 14.
Bach and Scarlatti on piano are intrinsically arrangements, music relocated to an instrument unanticipated by their composers. Some 19th and 20th-century composer-pianists found Bach and Scarlatti too spindly for the ivories. They added notes and fleshed out chords, and took other liberties such as composing new voices or adjusting harmonies.
(Dis)Arrangements 6. / Piano Factory 14.
Bach and Scarlatti on piano are intrinsically arrangements, music relocated to an instrument unanticipated by their composers. Some 19th and 20th-century composer-pianists found Bach and Scarlatti too spindly for the ivories. They added notes and fleshed out chords, and took other liberties such as composing new voices or adjusting harmonies.
Armchair Operas and Amusements 10.
The 89-minute documentary coalesces around the work that Barshai considered his most important: completing Bach’s Art of Fugue and producing a performing edition of Mahler’s Tenth.
Armchair Operas and Amusements 10.
The 89-minute documentary coalesces around the work that Barshai considered his most important: completing Bach’s Art of Fugue and producing a performing edition of Mahler’s Tenth.
(Dis)Arrangements 4: Mozart and Tchaikovsky
Mozart’s arrangements take slight liberties: His sources strayed from Bach’s original, not because Mozart thought to make improvements.
(Dis)Arrangements 4: Mozart and Tchaikovsky
Mozart’s arrangements take slight liberties: His sources strayed from Bach’s original, not because Mozart thought to make improvements.
Jürgen Jürgens’ Trauer-Ode
Another important reissue (out 6-25-13) involves Bach’s powerful Trauer-Ode.
Jürgen Jürgens’ Trauer-Ode
Another important reissue (out 6-25-13) involves Bach’s powerful Trauer-Ode.
(Dis)Arrangements 2: Goldberg Fever
A recent check disclosed 228 available recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Most are for a single keyboard as intended, but there are also arrangements and transcriptions. Here’s a random scattering of BWV 988 arrangements and digressions.
(Dis)Arrangements 2: Goldberg Fever
A recent check disclosed 228 available recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Most are for a single keyboard as intended, but there are also arrangements and transcriptions. Here’s a random scattering of BWV 988 arrangements and digressions.