Articles tagged 'Beethoven'
Four Symphonies: Reduced, Amplified, Completed and Unnecessary
One needs but a moment to get used to the intimate café texture whose Viennese litheness underscores the exquisite Schubertian opening dip.
Four Symphonies: Reduced, Amplified, Completed and Unnecessary
One needs but a moment to get used to the intimate café texture whose Viennese litheness underscores the exquisite Schubertian opening dip.
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and I
In December of 1808, Beethoven led an amateur group in the premiere of his Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80. They say he improvised the Introduction in performance and only later wrote it down.
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and I
In December of 1808, Beethoven led an amateur group in the premiere of his Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80. They say he improvised the Introduction in performance and only later wrote it down.
A Look at Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor (Part II)
Sweetness gives way to untamed power. Harmony, not melody, is the focus, presented in driving scales.
A Look at Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor (Part II)
Sweetness gives way to untamed power. Harmony, not melody, is the focus, presented in driving scales.
An Eclectic Piano Ramble
This handful of discs features the piano in all sorts of forms and genres. We examine works intended to be played at the keyboard and inside the piano, others that alter the piano’s tuning, and those that require a synthesized instrument.
An Eclectic Piano Ramble
This handful of discs features the piano in all sorts of forms and genres. We examine works intended to be played at the keyboard and inside the piano, others that alter the piano’s tuning, and those that require a synthesized instrument.
A Look at Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor (Part I)
The eight-measure theme is in 3/4 time, strong in meter, in spine, in sound — chords and melody walk chromatically away from C minor, reach a climactic sforzando on IV (F minor), then quickly run home again.
A Look at Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor (Part I)
The eight-measure theme is in 3/4 time, strong in meter, in spine, in sound — chords and melody walk chromatically away from C minor, reach a climactic sforzando on IV (F minor), then quickly run home again.
Walt’s Ratatouille 5.
The opening cut, Bley’s solo rendition of “Touching,” distills the pianist’s art — pedaling that turns notes into sculpture, leaping figures suddenly dropped, looming spaces.
Walt’s Ratatouille 5.
The opening cut, Bley’s solo rendition of “Touching,” distills the pianist’s art — pedaling that turns notes into sculpture, leaping figures suddenly dropped, looming spaces.
Dear La Folia 5.
It’s late night here. One can hear the whispered prayers from neighboring homes that the NASDAQ goes up again, and the plaintive call of the great horned owl.
Dear La Folia 5.
It’s late night here. One can hear the whispered prayers from neighboring homes that the NASDAQ goes up again, and the plaintive call of the great horned owl.
Dear La Folia 4.
We had an earthquake in the neighborhood a couple or three weeks ago, five point something.
Dear La Folia 4.
We had an earthquake in the neighborhood a couple or three weeks ago, five point something.
Dear La Folia 2.
I apologize for not writing sooner but I have been so busy meditating on suffering, old age and death, trying to fathom the meaning of my unlikely existence in a universe that is even more unlikely (and increasingly appears to be composed not of quarks or strings, but of imagination), that I’ve had precious little time for the really important things, like whether SACD will become the de facto new standard, or whether the Spectron Digital One amplifier is truly digital in nature.
Dear La Folia 2.
I apologize for not writing sooner but I have been so busy meditating on suffering, old age and death, trying to fathom the meaning of my unlikely existence in a universe that is even more unlikely (and increasingly appears to be composed not of quarks or strings, but of imagination), that I’ve had precious little time for the really important things, like whether SACD will become the de facto new standard, or whether the Spectron Digital One amplifier is truly digital in nature.
Scardanelli’s Motley: A Survey of Recent Releases
As the reader of La Folia 1:1 has already discovered, Signor Scardanelli is a gentleman of a delusional cast of mind.
Scardanelli’s Motley: A Survey of Recent Releases
As the reader of La Folia 1:1 has already discovered, Signor Scardanelli is a gentleman of a delusional cast of mind.
Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9
Here are peformances of the period-restoration school to which like and unlike endeavors are bound to be compared.
Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9
Here are peformances of the period-restoration school to which like and unlike endeavors are bound to be compared.