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...
Peteris Vasks: Flute Concerto
Flute Concerto proves that Vasks not only is one of the most prominent figures in the field of choral music, but also in the other classical segments (from instrumental concerts to chamber music and...
Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no. 48
Hovhaness gave to his symphonies a face perpetually fresh, where the tradition of post-romantic Western music (with his best weapon, the melody) was violated by the intrusion of Byzantine polyphony, the modality of classical...
Zhou Long/Chen Yi: Symphony “Humen 1839”
The orchestral side of Zhou's composition is naturally his strong point, along with his chamber music for strings and percussion, and Zhou has repeatedly demonstrated an enviable competence in areas which discover Stravinsky in...
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...
Il Latvian Radio Choir: su Toivo Tulev
Nel sistema delle credenze giapponesi ve n'è una particolarmente avvertita ed ascoltata: il wabi-sabi è una constatazione della bellezza della vita che malinconicamente sa di essere evanescente, perché non permanente; tale prescrizione buddista riempie...
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...
Frederic Rzewski: Piano Music
"...However the composition for piano remains (for quantity), the more externalized music of American composer: in this brief compilation dedicated to the pianist, that provides a brief and sintetic project about the composer, the...
Carter Pann: The piano’s 12 sides/The bills/The cheese grater/Piano concerto n.1
"Pann, which received a Grammy nomination in 2000 for his first piano concerto, is a sensitive composer, in search of a musical impressionism built without compromise and rhetoric, with constant changes of style: the...
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...
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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....
