Gavin Bryars: After Handel’s Vesper (1995); Ramble on Cortona (2010) Performed by Ralph van Raat on a recent Naxos release. Naxos 8.572570 (2011) John Cage: Music for Piano Nos 4-19, 21-84 (1952-1956) Performed simultaneously by five pianists in 1986; Hungaroton HCD 12893 (2001) Listen About this recording of Cage’s Music for Piano, adapted from […]
Entries from April 2011
263 :: 29 April 2011 :: Simultaneously Solo
April 27th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: program
262 :: 22 April 2011 :: Piano Revisited
April 21st, 2011 · No Comments
Piano Music Revisited – New releases with new interpretations: Ann Southam: Glass Houses: #2, 9, 5, 1 Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano; Centredisques CMCCD 16511 (2011) Hans Otte: Das Buch der Klänge (Book of Sounds): #10 (Otte), 10 (van Raat), 2, 5 Hans Otte (#10 first), Ralph van Raat, remaining […]
Tags: program
261 :: 15 April 2011 :: John McGuire
April 12th, 2011 · No Comments
Two works by the Californian minimalist composer John McGuire, who spent several years working in Germany and now lives in New York City. John McGuire: Cadence Music for 21 Instruments (1985) Ensemble Modern, Ernest Bour, cond. Frieze for Four Pianos (1974) Hermann Kretzschmar, Paulo Alvarez, Irmela Roelcke, Eun-Ju Kim […]
Tags: program
260 :: April 8, 2011 :: Viola!
April 6th, 2011 · No Comments
Two late 20thC viola concertos, with Kim Kashkashian and Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra on ECM New Series releases. Krzysztof Penderecki: Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra (1983) Kim Kashkashian, viola; Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, cond. ECM New Series 1506 (1993) Giya Kancheli: Abii ne viderem (1994) for string orchestra […]
Tags: program