Articles tagged 'Schubert'

Piano Legends

What makes a pianist a “legend”?

Piano Legends

What makes a pianist a “legend”?

Album Tweets 5.

Walt Mundkowsky [December 2009.] Michael PRÆTORIUS / Samuel SCHEIDT / Johann Hermann SCHEIN: Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning “as it might have been celebrated around 1620” (rec. 1993). Gabrieli Consort & Players, Boys’ Choir and Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral,

Album Tweets 5.

Walt Mundkowsky [December 2009.] Michael PRÆTORIUS / Samuel SCHEIDT / Johann Hermann SCHEIN: Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning “as it might have been celebrated around 1620” (rec. 1993). Gabrieli Consort & Players, Boys’ Choir and Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral,

Eternal Schubert and Disarrangements

Normand Forget arranges with a light hand, avoiding obvious colors and associations. Indeed the intermittent alto flute, bass clarinet, oboe d’amore and Baroque horn add smoky hues.

Eternal Schubert and Disarrangements

Normand Forget arranges with a light hand, avoiding obvious colors and associations. Indeed the intermittent alto flute, bass clarinet, oboe d’amore and Baroque horn add smoky hues.

Mostly Symphonies 11.

This revealing 2007 compilation reaches back to recordings from 1966-67 and 1983-84, which opened a largely neglected chapter of Czech music.

Mostly Symphonies 11.

This revealing 2007 compilation reaches back to recordings from 1966-67 and 1983-84, which opened a largely neglected chapter of Czech music.

Golden Oldies: The Sony Leon Fleisher Reissues

To those of us of a certain age, the name Leon Fleisher conjures memories of a lavishly gifted American pianist whose Columbia and Epic recordings schooled us in many of the basic works of the piano literature.

Golden Oldies: The Sony Leon Fleisher Reissues

To those of us of a certain age, the name Leon Fleisher conjures memories of a lavishly gifted American pianist whose Columbia and Epic recordings schooled us in many of the basic works of the piano literature.

Words Fail Me 2.

Late Liszt is terrain as well as timeline — the bleak, haunted miniatures that glimpsed the future.

Words Fail Me 2.

Late Liszt is terrain as well as timeline — the bleak, haunted miniatures that glimpsed the future.

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.

Schoenberg’s “Mis-Handel-ing” and Other Curiosities

We dwell rather on a few monstrous creations by composers who should have known better. Step at your own risk behind a dingy sideshow curtain to gawk at a shelf of specimens in dirty jars.

Schoenberg’s “Mis-Handel-ing” and Other Curiosities

We dwell rather on a few monstrous creations by composers who should have known better. Step at your own risk behind a dingy sideshow curtain to gawk at a shelf of specimens in dirty jars.

Random Noise 2

Russia and the USA, Shostakovich and Feldman

Random Noise 2

Russia and the USA, Shostakovich and Feldman

Dear La Folia 10.

I am Black Point’s foremost collector of Bach’s Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen.

Dear La Folia 10.

I am Black Point’s foremost collector of Bach’s Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen.

The Hyperion Schubert Lieder Edition, Part Three

The thirty-seven volume Hyperion Schubert Lieder Edition, containing all of Schubert’s more than six hundred songs, is one of the great landmarks in the history of recording.

The Hyperion Schubert Lieder Edition, Part Three

The thirty-seven volume Hyperion Schubert Lieder Edition, containing all of Schubert’s more than six hundred songs, is one of the great landmarks in the history of recording.

The Hyperion Schubert Lieder Edition, Part Two

Here we continue with Volume 15.

The Hyperion Schubert Lieder Edition, Part Two

Here we continue with Volume 15.