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2023-08-14 04:30:00
Rautavaara and Martinů: Piano Concertos (CD Review)
by Ryan RossRautavaara: Piano Concerto No. 3 ‘Gift of Dreams’; Martinů: Piano Concerto No. 3. Olli Mustonen, piano; Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Dalia Stasevska, conductor. BIS-2532The unexpected coupling of these two compositions is already creating some buzz for this recording. What do they and their composers at all have in common anyway? According to the liner notes by Jean-Pascal Vachon, both men “adopted an attitude free from any musical puritanism, constantly finding new sources of inspiration which they explored without taboos.” Right. But these are also both very accessible compositions in a 20th-century musical landscape where accessibility still isn’t a particularly prestigious value, even in hindsight. It was one thing for Martinů to be composing neo-Romantic music (Vachon notes his Third Concerto’s links with Brahms) as late as 1948, but what of Rautavaara cranking out works that are at once so individual and yet so unabashedly easy on the ears, decades after having forsaken […]
2021-12-24 01:08:20
Janise White, Harpsichordist and Fortepianist Performs Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), The Collection of Pieces for the Countess of Vachon
Janise White Harpsichordist & FortepianistPerformsLE CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES(1745-1799) The Collection of Piecesfor the Countess of Vachon, 1782and more CELEBRATE SAINT-GEORGES' 276TH BIRTHDAY[DECEMBER 25TH] […]
2020-05-31 23:00:00
Vachon, Boulogne, Cambini: Quatuors à cordes - (Quatuor Les Adieux)
Pierre Vachon (1731-1803)String Quartet in A minor, Op. 5 No. 1 (1772)Joseph Boulogne (1739-1799)String Quartet in G minor, Op. 14 No. 6 (1781)Giuseppi Maria Cambini (1746-1825) String Quartet in G minor, Book 18 No. 2 (1783-85)String Quartet in F major, Book 20 No. 6 (1783-85)Quatuor Les Adieux(Period Instruments)Auvidis Valois V 4761 (1996) [Flac & Scans]
2018-02-18 17:24:00
Catching Up With: Scott Frankel’s American Songbook
[…] picture Rubinstein and Arden’s horror as they watch — something the staging didn’t show us. Again and again, the album offers comparable revelations and delights.The rivalry between Rubinstein and Arden is an odd, almost defiantly un-commercial choice of subject matter for a musical — as are all of Scott’s shows, with the debatable exception of Far from Heaven. Like the writer-director of the film Far from Heaven, Todd Haynes, and like that movie’s producer, Christine Vachon, Scott is an old friend, and I often brag that Scott writes shows to please me, just as Todd and Christine make movies for my personal enjoyment. The reality is, of course, quite different. My friends create art that pleases them. I’m sure they’re happy when other people like what they’ve done, but that’s not the goal they’re striving for. The result is art of the highest integrity, and the most gratifying rewards. The […]
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