Articles tagged 'Finnissy'
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Ramble with Hair Dryers, Crumbs and Puccini’s Rifle
In Lanza and Valle’s four-part opus, toys, kitchen gadgets and broken machines combine with non-standard instrumental sounds.
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Ramble with Hair Dryers, Crumbs and Puccini’s Rifle
In Lanza and Valle’s four-part opus, toys, kitchen gadgets and broken machines combine with non-standard instrumental sounds.
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Unsolicited Remarks
Even after bumping into derivatives and less artful followers, Lachenmann’s original acerbic brittleness still delights after a long absence.
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Unsolicited Remarks
Even after bumping into derivatives and less artful followers, Lachenmann’s original acerbic brittleness still delights after a long absence.
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Piano Factory 19.
Folks expecting a metronome or brash chords will be surprised with Levingston’s limpid Glass recital.
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Piano Factory 19.
Folks expecting a metronome or brash chords will be surprised with Levingston’s limpid Glass recital.
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String Theory 22: Ensembles with Piano
Plowright and the Szymanowski Quartet offer a second release of Polish chamber music.
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String Theory 22: Ensembles with Piano
Plowright and the Szymanowski Quartet offer a second release of Polish chamber music.
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String Theory 19: Mostly Cello
Pieces requiring retuning or scordatura have a modest foothold in the literature. It is very unusual to encounter works where strings are adjusted while playing, but several specimens fill out Ballon’s bold recital.
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String Theory 19: Mostly Cello
Pieces requiring retuning or scordatura have a modest foothold in the literature. It is very unusual to encounter works where strings are adjusted while playing, but several specimens fill out Ballon’s bold recital.
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String Theory 12: Violin (with Piano, Mostly)
Fokkens declares a natural and mature style through efficient notes and rhythm.
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String Theory 12: Violin (with Piano, Mostly)
Fokkens declares a natural and mature style through efficient notes and rhythm.
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Used Bin Troll Tweets K.
Alas, they don’t make them like this anymore!
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Piano Factory 11.
Finnissy’s huge and nigh impenetrable opus suggests that music may comment only upon itself.
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Piano Factory 11.
Finnissy’s huge and nigh impenetrable opus suggests that music may comment only upon itself.
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String Theory 8 / EA Bucket 14: 29 Quartets, etc.
Prokofiev’s awkward First provides fodder for insipid remixes.
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String Theory 8 / EA Bucket 14: 29 Quartets, etc.
Prokofiev’s awkward First provides fodder for insipid remixes.
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Piano Trios
Compared with the string quartet, contemporary piano trios are in short supply. After Ravel, Ives, Shostakovich and perhaps Schnittke, few 20th-century works have become staples.
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Piano Trios
Compared with the string quartet, contemporary piano trios are in short supply. After Ravel, Ives, Shostakovich and perhaps Schnittke, few 20th-century works have become staples.
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String Theory 2: Violoncellos and Basses with Support
Canonici produces vivid playing, a wonder to behold. However, these modernist solos with their brutal snap pizzicatos, soaring harmonics, low growling and frenetic tremolos tend to blur together.
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String Theory 2: Violoncellos and Basses with Support
Canonici produces vivid playing, a wonder to behold. However, these modernist solos with their brutal snap pizzicatos, soaring harmonics, low growling and frenetic tremolos tend to blur together.
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Scardanelli’s Motley
Atlantis is the disc’s title as well as one of three works.