Jennifer Higdon: Early Chamber Works
"...with a path addressed toward a personal way to hear the scores, the composer has revitalized authors like Copland, Bartok or Hindemith without being in any way a replica, especially with the string instruments...
Jacques Hétu: Chamber works for strings (complete)
Naxos fills a gap by publishing the complete work of Hétu on chamber strings, where you can admire the "regularized strangeness" that characterized his style. In every hidden corner of the score, it reveals...
John McCabe: Composer, Pianist, Conductor
"John McCabe: Composer, pianist, conductor" is Naxos' attempt to make a synthetic exploration of the music of one of the most respected composer of England, a kind of brief collection divided between his three...
Osias Wilenski: Oboe Concerto
In Wilenski's composition for oboe you can discern an excellent composition; we have tension, and a direction towards impressionistic melody that shows the beauty of the use of an oboe in an orchestra and...
Alcune recenti incisioni di riferimento per chitarra classica
La Naxos ha pubblicato il mese scorso una raccolta completa di brani per chitarra classica composti dall’italiano Bruno Bettinelli, figura ritenuta importante nello sviluppo della musicalità della chitarra classica in quel processo di mediazione...
Christos Hatzis: Flute concertos
In "Overscript" Hatzis uses the technique of "sound slices", that is the technique in which the original theme music is joined to the composer's derivate composition, as in different slides that go back and...
Vincent Persichetti: Harpsichord sonatas
Molti appassionati di musica classica castrano la conoscenza del periodo delle composizioni interessanti al clavicembalo subito dopo la sua sostituzione con il pianoforte. Il lasso temporale che caratterizza il vuoto compositivo dell'Ottocento viene praticamente...
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...
Nils Vigeland: Piano Music (Life sketches)
"Piano Music (Life Sketches)" contains many souls of American modern music, but Vigeland also shows different paths: by listening to the recent compositions for piano one has the feeling of being distant from those...
Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concertos nos. 5 and 6
"......From the musical point of view, in Strathclyde n. 5 the classical influences are mixed without slavishly provide those ancient models, the feeling evocated in the three movements of piece is the instrumental "strangeness"...
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MMI Free Impro Festival
Sin dalla sua prima edizione nel 2016 l'MMI Festival ha costituito una bella piattaforma d'incontro per gli improvvisatori liberi provenienti da differenti città europee....
