Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto no.2 e altre nuove composizioni
E' noto che il compositore britannico Peter Maxwell Davies abbia affrontato in maniera piuttosto completa la materia del concerto dividendola per singolo strumento e di come la Naxos abbia oramai ristampato buona parte del...
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...
William Bolcom: Piano Music
Spesso ci capita di criticare coloro che in musica hanno seguito un percorso generazionalista. Si tratta di compositori o musicisti che hanno vagliato in lungo e in largo le possibilità di inserirsi stilisticamente in...
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 5
The fifth string quartet by Philip Glass, which he wrote in 1991, has a more varied configuration than the previous quartets; with a fatalistic impression, typical of post-modern music, "String Quartet No. 5" flies...
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...
David Robert Coleman: Starry Night
Coleman's Zwiegespräch, for solo viola, with an excellent performance by Felix Schwartz, provides a musical "habitat" that suggests the Dorian Gray's dialogues in front of his bad image embodied in the painting: a perfect...
John Corigliano: Conjurer/Vocalise
"....in "Conjurer" we feel alternately mysterious marimbas (the movement Wood), insightful bells, resonating gongs and telepathic drums (the movements Cadence), vibraphones that swallow the time (the movement of metal), compelling mix of membranes and...
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"...
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...
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...
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Negli ultimi 4/5 anni molte direzioni artistiche dei festival di musica 'cosiddetta contemporanea' hanno cambiato idea. Una di quelle in cui si è avvertito...
