Askell Masson: Music for clarinet
One of the particularities highlighted by Askell Masson has been to combine modern techniques for the clarinet with impressionistic writing. Naxos Records is releasing an exciting and almost complete volume of recordings in which...
Andrew Staniland: Talking down the tiger and other compositions
Andrew Staniland is among the heirs of the best Canadian electroacoustic music. He is a composer particularly stimulated by developments of the old classical composition, as well as by the new doctrines of electronics....
Marino Formenti: Liszt inspections
Liszt distilled musical rhetoric at the end of his career, attenuated harmonic connections, reduced sonorities, gambled with abrupt juxtaposition and silence, cultivated simplicity, and highlighted the fragmentary. Late Liszt has forced us to rethink...
Armenian piano music
Mikael Ayrapetyan is an Armenian pianist with a specific goal: to deliver hidden gems of the Armenian classical repertoire. In this collection, he plays a series of beautiful compositions for solo piano, in chronological...
Elements Eternal: Gryphon Trio plays Canadian composers
Even if today it is truly difficult to scandalize with certain methods, it is also true that the process of renovation of classical music might know no pause: the compositions given by Canadian composers...
Dmitrij Sostakovic: Trascrivere la vita intera
E' benvenuta questa edizione italiana di uno dei più affascinanti libri sul compositore russo Dmitrij Sostakovic: Elizabeth Wilson, violoncellista inglese della classe di Rostropovich, nel 1994 ricostruì con pazienza tutta la vita del compositore...
Airi Yoshioka & the Violin Alone
Much has changed in Western art music since the modern violin family was developed in Northern Italy in the early 16thcentury. Formal conventions have come and gone, tonality has evolved, broadened and dissolved, and...
Sofia Gubaidulina: Complete Guitar Works
The first collection in cd of compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina devoted entirely to works for guitar contains older and solo compositions for the acoustic guitar plus new compositions that unfold in combination with other...
Xu Shuya: Nirvana & other compositions
The noble attempt to work out difficult textures and conceptual music is the aim of Xu Shuya. He takes advantage of the musical proximity between Western contemporary orchestras and Eastern orchestras, which allows the...
Jarrett tra “solo” e concerti
Un insegnamento oggettivo che scaturisce dall'ascolto delle registrazioni di musica classica è che talvolta esse non riescono a riprodurre interamente le dinamiche dell'esibizione che è alla loro origine: questo principio può essere applicato con...
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Concerto conclusivo degli Incontri Internazionali per Giovani Compositori “Franco Donatoni”
Un interessante argomento che una parte della composizione sta affrontando da qualche anno è quello dell'emergenza climatica. Domani sera, alla Fabbrica del Vapore a...
