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Bartok: Violin Concerto No 2; Eotvos: Seven; Ligeti: Violin Concerto – review
Budapest :: Hungary | 6 months ago
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The violin concertos by Bartok and Ligeti are two of the greatest of the 20th century, and in this two-disc set they frame another Hungarian concerto, Peter Eotvos 's Seven, which he composed in 2006 in memory of the seven astronauts who died in the
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The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival
New York City :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
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The Hot List Late-Night Drinks With a Pianist Michael Falco for The New York Times The Israeli pianist David Greilsammer, who will play at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Published: June 21, 2012 A Little Night Music is the apt title for the Mostly
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Album review: Jeremy Denk plays Ligeti, Beethoven
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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Nonesuch Classical On his first recording for Nonesuch, the formidable pianist Jeremy Denk offers a meaty combination of Gyrgy Ligeti's Etudes and Beethoven's final sonata, Op...The argument he's making is a compelling one, linking the timeless
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Album: Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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Thanks to Her Majesty's 60 years as Head of the Commonwealth, we've got a rare long weekend to make .....Veteran trumpeter Smith has been writing music about the civil-rights struggle since a tribute to Medger Evers 35 years ago. Various grants
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Ligeti/Beethoven: Piano Etudes; Sonata No 32 – review
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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In his label debut recital, the American pianist Jeremy Denk a regular duo partner of violinist Joshua Bell displays his talent for finding connections between apparent opposites...Here Ligeti's Piano Etudes, Books One and Two , short and glittering
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Album: Jeremy DenkLigeti/Beethoven (Nonesuch)
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Ligeti's Piano Etudes are famously quixotic in pushing the player beyond their usual limits. In "Desordre", for instance, the right hand is restricted to just white keys, and the left to just black: taken at pell-mell pace, the frantic rush of notes
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Storm Corrosion: Storm Corrosion – review
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Widely lauded prog prime movers Steven Wilson and Mikael Akerfeldt have produced remarkable bodies of work with their respective bands, Porcupine Tree and Opeth, but Storm Corrosion marks their first true musical collaboration. Far from conforming to
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Music Review: Bargemusic, With the Pianists Olga Vinokur and David Kalhous
Budapest :: Hungary | 1 year ago
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The composer Morton Feldman wrote vast works of whisper-soft chords and eerie harmonies that unfold with glacial, regal slowness. Encouraged by John Cage, Feldman who had a day job working in his family's coat-manufacturing business until he was 44
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Chamber Works from Mohammed Fairouz
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Q2 Music Album of the Week for December 6, 2011 Free Download of Four Critical Models: III. Tuesday, December 06, 2011 There's an embarrassment of riches on Critical Models, the debut solo album by 20-something composer Mohammed Fairouz. And yet the
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Ligeti: Viola Sonata; Holliger: Trema; Donatoni: Ali; Scelsi: Manto etc – review
London :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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Completed in 1994, Ligeti's Viola Sonata is perhaps the least often heard and least considered of his late works. Yet as Genevieve Strosser shows, it is a very considerable addition to the solo-viola repertory. Its six-movement form, beginning with a
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