Spanish guitar music
In relazione al carattere espresso dalla musica del suo paese, Albeniz dicharava: "... la musica è un pò infantile, semplice, vivace, ma alla fine, la gente, il nostro popolo spagnolo è qualcosa che si...
Cindy McTee: Circuits • Symphony No 1: Ballet for Orchestra • Einstein’s Dream •...
"..... the elements of musical character and the style of Cindy McTee are perfectly represented in this compilation made by Naxos: we listen to compositions as Symphony no. 1, where the moods of Beethoven (of the Fifth Symphony) become...
Ana Sokolovic: Folklore imaginaire
A challenging stylistic structure is found in the music of Ana Sokolovic. The idiosyncrasies of Berio or Cage live alongside the Balkan popular tradition and give us the perspective of a reversal of the...
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...
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...
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...
Jack Gallagher: Symphony n. 2 “Ascendant”/Quiet Reflections
The "American" musical structures of Jack Gallagher's compositions seem to show the influence of his mentor Siegmeister's orchestral composition, his mentor, but really they have many reflexive features of a special national identity; they...
José Luis Greco: Geografias del silencio
Geografias del silencio contains some of José Luis Greco's finest compositions, since you can see in them that vital process that follows the composition with all its trappings and influences. Forget Cage's silence (the...
Nicolas Bacri
Uno dei migliori e più interessanti frutti del polistilismo contemporaneo è il compositore francese Nicolas Bacri (1961): partito da studi seriali riflessi nelle sue prime opere, Bacri ad un certo punto ha abbandonato la...
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Su AngelicA 34
E' noto come il festival internazionale di AngelicA a Bologna sia sempre stato un eclettico appuntamento musicale, con concerti e proposte di artisti senza...
