Leonard Bernstein/Tan Dun: Touches and traces
Warren Lee's piano recital highlights a common matrix between the music of Leonard Bernstein and Tan Dun: the French music legacy of Chopin and Debussy. But the color and the moods of this music...
Lyell Cresswell: Landscapes of the Soul / Piano Concerto / Concerto for Orchestra and...
"Landscapes of the Soul" is programmatic, it was composed for a project that involved the Italian painter Maurizio Bottarelli in which the aim was to find common ground between music and painting.
A sure point...
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...
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...
Ned Rorem: Piano album I/Six Friends
".....Between calculated joy and realism of lived experience, with a natural musical depth without any mysticism, the thumbnails of "The Piano Album I/ Six Friends", played by the talented Carolyn Enger, run precious, making...
Áskell Masson: Kammersinfónia / Elja / Ymni / Maes Howe
"....Masson is very special composer who uses the general principles of atonality and twelve-tone series by injecting into writing powerful doses of Icelandic folklore: this mixture generates an unique mosaic of sound, with powerful...
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...
Lawrence Dillon: Violin music
Tra le migliori proposte in quartetto d'archi, nell'ambito dei compositori americani delle nuove generazioni, c'è sicuramente quella di Lawrence Dillon, classe 1959: oltre ad essere molto richiesto dai musicisti statunitensi a caccia di autori...
Jia Daqun: Chamber works
Jia Daqun's music provides a delicate pleasure of listening. It shows a search for common paths between the classical Western music and traditional Chinese music: harmony, timbre and melodies can be shared in a...
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...
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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....
