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April 29, 2015
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This is one of those special pieces that gets better with every listen. And you really 'get your money's worth', since it's long, chock-full of absorbing episodes that each have interesting instrumental / vocal combinations. It's hard to believe after listening again tonight probably for the tenth ... more |
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November 11, 2014
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Some composers I discover and am immediately drawn to, and others I avoid until one day deciding to make an effort to get to know them better, sometimes by force (self-force). Elgar falls in the latter category. I knew and enjoyed the Enigma Variations when I was in college, but after that I avoided ... more |
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March 4, 2014
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This is a desert island disc. Instead of the kind of fussy masterwork preservation we can find on so many previous recordings, every moment of the music is vividly alive, to the last second of the album. Sudbin takes risks on more than one level. His cadenzas for the Mozart concerto stretch way ... more |
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August 15, 2013
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Here's one of those albums that even hard-core classical fans might tend to overlook. French trumpet stuff. But it being from BIS and being multichannel got my attention, and then it has pieces by Jolivet, who wrote one of my favorite things, a wind quintet piece you can find on on ... more |
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August 14, 2013
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Somehow I wandered into the area of wind quintet music very early in my exploration of classical music, and I still count certain wind quintet pieces among my very favorite music ever. Case in point: the "Sérénade pour quintette à vent avec hautbois principal" by Jolivet. I was in the record store ... more |
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October 29, 2015
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| I'm hoping that the Dohnanyi / Cleveland recording of Dvorak's 7th symphony will be rehabilitated. That was on Decca, right? ... more |
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October 19, 2015
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| Don't forget Pletnev, on Pentatone. He'll be doing more Scriabin, right? ... more |
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October 15, 2015
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| No fair. ... more |
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October 12, 2015
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| Well I for one wrote to Robert and holy smokes! ... more |
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October 11, 2015
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| Robert, I see on Yevgeni Sudbin's site that he has a new album, but it's not listed on the BIS site. Is it something coming later for wider release? I'm pretty excited to hear him play Medtner solo pieces.
I'm also excited about the Poltera / Dvorák and Martinu album you mentioned. I deeply loved the Walton / Hindemith album. Will this new album ... more |
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