Paul Moravec: Violin concerto
In Moravec's violin concerto the score given to the violinist Maria Bachmann is long and essential, and much of the pathos of the concert is determined by her skills; revised in 2013, the Violin...
Roberto Sierra: Sinfonia n. 4/Fandangos/Carnaval
"...the skill of Sierra lies in the fact that his stylistic formula is a attractive condensation of music, not rhetorical, tending to the exaltation of some timbral colors (the usual good combinations of sounds...
Oscar su Naxos 2011
Il consueto riepilogo dei prodotti migliori che l'etichetta guida americana (la Naxos Records) ha pubblicato nel 2011, non può prescindere da una attenta selezione che dev'essere fatta tra le righe delle pubblicazioni, cercando di...
Gao Ping: Piano Quintet “Mei Lan Zhu Ju” / The Mountain / 12-Hour Bridge
".....The musical style of Ping and of his composition "The Mountain" are hidden in the filosofy of the travels of Xingjian, reflecting meetings and habits of a people......it is a musical spirit that is...
Samuel Adler: Cantos
In queste pagine si è più volte sottolineato come la prospettiva musicale contemporanea proveniente dagli Stati Uniti sia ancora piuttosto distante da quella europea: mentre la prima abbraccia e gioca con i fantasmi del...
Joan Tower: String quartets nos.3-5
Joan Tower's string quartets claim a special versatility within 20th century chamber music: homages and the tributes to friends, artists or specific events are developed with a new centre of gravity and the score...
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde concertos n .7 e n.8/A spell for green corn
"...The Strathclyde concerto n. 7 is dedicated to the double bass and looks like a test in progress, constantly addressed to probable events, in which the instrument plays solitary scores that are widely expressive....
....the...
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...
GE Gan-Ru: Shangai Reminiscences
"Shanghai Reminiscences" shows the major instrumental effort straining to reproduce a sort of imaginative autobiography in music of Ge Gan-Ru: we listen to the sound of the first lessons on the violin, the sound...
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...
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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....
