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CLASSICAL Johann Sebastian BachChrist lag in Totesbanden: Cantatas BWV 4, 106, 131Ensemble Correspondances / Sébastien D...
02/11/2025

CLASSICAL Johann Sebastian BachChrist lag in Totesbanden: Cantatas BWV 4, 106, 131Ensemble Correspondances / Sébastien DaucéHarmonia Mundi (dist. Integral)HMM 902745 For their first recording of music by J.S. Bach, the vocal and period-instrument Ensemble Correspondances has decided to start more or less at the beginning, with three sacred cantatas written early in Bach's career when he was employed in the church at Mühlhausen....

CLASSICAL Johann Sebastian BachChrist lag in Totesbanden: Cantatas BWV 4, 106, 131Ensemble Correspondances / Sébastien DaucéHarmonia Mundi (dist. Integral)HMM 902745 For their first recording of mu…

CLASSICAL Bill Brennan; Andy McNeillDreaming in Gamelan (digital only)Self-releasedNo cat. no. The gamelan music of Java...
06/10/2025

CLASSICAL Bill Brennan; Andy McNeillDreaming in Gamelan (digital only)Self-releasedNo cat. no. The gamelan music of Java and Bali, in Indonesia, has exerted a fascination on American composers for decades and had a significant influence on the development of first-generation minimalism. The music's steadily pulsing rhythms, slow or static harmonic movement, and focus on tuned percussion instruments were particularly attractive in the 1960s to those seeking exotic and mystical (or at least mystical-seeming) musical experience, but gamelan continues to be a rich source of exploration for Western composers....

CLASSICAL Bill Brennan; Andy McNeillDreaming in Gamelan (digital only)Self-releasedNo cat. no. The gamelan music of Java and Bali, in Indonesia, has exerted a fascination on American composers for …

CLASSICAL Michael HaydnComplete Symphonies; Wind Concertos (16 discs)Various ensembles and soloistsCPO (dist. Naxos)555 ...
01/09/2025

CLASSICAL Michael HaydnComplete Symphonies; Wind Concertos (16 discs)Various ensembles and soloistsCPO (dist. Naxos)555 673-2 Imagine being a prodigiously talented and creative composer, and being cursed by fate to have been born the younger sibling of another, even greater one. This was of course the struggle faced by Johann Michael Haydn, younger brother of Franz Joseph Haydn, in whose shadow he would be forced to work for his whole life, remaining in that shadow forever after....

CLASSICAL Michael HaydnComplete Symphonies; Wind Concertos (16 discs)Various ensembles and soloistsCPO (dist. Naxos)555 673-2 Imagine being a prodigiously talented and creative composer, and being …

CLASSICAL Terry RileyThe Columbia Recordings (4 discs)Columbia19802908832 The music of first-generation minimalist compo...
04/08/2025

CLASSICAL Terry RileyThe Columbia Recordings (4 discs)Columbia19802908832 The music of first-generation minimalist composers came in basically four flavors: repetitive arpeggiation (Philip Glass); rhythmic phasing (Steve Reich); extended drones (LaMonte Young); and meditative mysticism (Terry Riley). The landmark recordings of the latter style remain Riley's two 1960s Columbia albums In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air, but he also released two other significant recordings on that label: a collaboration with the Velvet Underground's John Cale titled…...

CLASSICAL Terry RileyThe Columbia Recordings (4 discs)Columbia19802908832 The music of first-generation minimalist composers came in basically four flavors: repetitive arpeggiation (Philip Glass); …

CLASSICAL Marti EpsteinFor JackJack YarbroughSawyer EditionsSE040 Composer Marti Epstein wrote this 50-minute piece spec...
07/07/2025

CLASSICAL Marti EpsteinFor JackJack YarbroughSawyer EditionsSE040 Composer Marti Epstein wrote this 50-minute piece specifically for pianist Jack Yarbrough, who had performed other works of hers and inspired her with his (as she puts it) "beauty of touch and... attention to pacing." And indeed, pacing is key to the successful performance of this strange and beautiful piece. Much of it is very quiet, but even when the music is subdued it's neither simple nor easy: the chords are densely chromatic, and the music consists largely of chords -- played one a time, spaced out irregularly, not connected by melodic phrases or obviously logical harmonic progression....

CLASSICAL Marti EpsteinFor JackJack YarbroughSawyer EditionsSE040 Composer Marti Epstein wrote this 50-minute piece specifically for pianist Jack Yarbrough, who had performed other works of hers an…

CLASSICAL Ludwig Van BeethovenThe Complete String Quartets Vol. 1 (2 discs)Ariel QuartetOrchid ClassicsORC100378 Beethov...
02/06/2025

CLASSICAL Ludwig Van BeethovenThe Complete String Quartets Vol. 1 (2 discs)Ariel QuartetOrchid ClassicsORC100378 Beethoven's first set of six string quartets, published at the turn of the 19th century in two volumes of three pieces each, are thrilling to hear. Not only are we witnessing, with these works, a bridging of the gap between the high classicism of Mozart and Haydn and the emerging Romantic style, but we're also watching Beethoven learn as he works: it was upon the publication of these works that he confided to a friend, "Only now do I understand how to write string quartets." Listening to these brilliant, fiery, immaculately constructed pieces, you and I might laugh bitterly at his observation; he was barely 30 when he completed them....

CLASSICAL Ludwig Van BeethovenThe Complete String Quartets Vol. 1 (2 discs)Ariel QuartetOrchid ClassicsORC100378 Beethoven’s first set of six string quartets, published at the turn of the 19t…

CLASSICAL Various ComposersConcertos for Baroque LuteMiguel Rincón; Il Pomo d'OroAparte Classics (dist. Integral)AP376 I...
05/05/2025

CLASSICAL Various ComposersConcertos for Baroque LuteMiguel Rincón; Il Pomo d'OroAparte Classics (dist. Integral)AP376 I have to confess that I'm a bit befuddled by the concept of a concerto for lute. Today, with modern technology, there's no reason why it can't work; the lute can be miked and amplified so that its solo parts can easily be heard above the rest of the ensemble....

CLASSICAL Various ComposersConcertos for Baroque LuteMiguel Rincón; Il Pomo d’OroAparte Classics (dist. Integral)AP376 I have to confess that I’m a bit befuddled by the concept of a con…

CLASSICAL Benedict SheehanUkrainian War RequiemAxios Men's Ensemble; Pro Coro Canada / Michael ZauggCappella (dist. Naxo...
07/04/2025

CLASSICAL Benedict SheehanUkrainian War RequiemAxios Men's Ensemble; Pro Coro Canada / Michael ZauggCappella (dist. Naxos)CR432 SACD In Eastern Orthodox churches, it is common to conduct memorial services for the dead, in which prayers are said and sung along with hymns and psalms, all for the purpose of praying for the departed and comforting the living. In this tradition, and although it's called a Requiem, Benedict Sheehan's solemn and moving choral composition does not follow the pattern or content of a Mass; instead it's a selection of psalms, hymns, and litanies....

CLASSICAL Benedict SheehanUkrainian War RequiemAxios Men’s Ensemble; Pro Coro Canada / Michael ZauggCappella (dist. Naxos)CR432 SACD In Eastern Orthodox churches, it is common to conduct memo…

CLASSICAL Carl Philipp Emanuel BachFlute ConcertosAriel Zuckerman; Georgian Chamber Orchestra IngolstadtFuga Libera (dis...
03/03/2025

CLASSICAL Carl Philipp Emanuel BachFlute ConcertosAriel Zuckerman; Georgian Chamber Orchestra IngolstadtFuga Libera (dist. Naxos)FUG836 Although he is forever destined to abide in the shadow of his immortal father, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was the musical colossus who bestrode the divide between the baroque and classical eras, a theoretician and composer of both tremendous gifts and amazing productivity and influence....

CLASSICAL Carl Philipp Emanuel BachFlute ConcertosAriel Zuckerman; Georgian Chamber Orchestra IngolstadtFuga Libera (dist. Naxos)FUG836 Although he is forever destined to abide in the shadow of his…

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