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Best performances of the Complete Mozart piano concertos 7 Oct 2012 | 04:06 am
I always return to Mozart’s piano concertos, this is something like an Ithaca to me. I enjoy them with Schiff, Barenboim, Brendel, Anda, Jando, Uchida, Perahia, and Buchbinder. I’ve also listened to D...
Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon and EMI recordings 3 Oct 2012 | 10:33 pm
If is difficult to find a work that Karajan interpreted better than any other conductor — the way you find, for example, performances by Celibidache, Jochum, Solti, Giulini, and many others to excel o...
The green music of Hank Roberts 3 Oct 2012 | 09:36 pm
Guitars, percussion, cello and (sometimes) voice, in a music that can be ‘concrete’, rock, ambient, jazz – surprisingly interesting and vigorous. The album is called “Green”. 01 – Azul 02 – Bernie Ala...
Van Morrison is born to sing 2 Oct 2012 | 10:56 pm
Born to sing: no plan b, is Van Morrison’s new album, ten rock/jazz/blues songs that stand among the best he recorded so far in his only plan, to be a singer. 01 – Open the Door (To Your Heart) 02 – G...
Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas with Rudolf Buchbinder 28 Sep 2012 | 09:13 pm
At last I threw away the ridiculous Glenn Gould set of Haydn’s piano sonatas, replaced it with this performance by Rudolf Buchbinder. It doesn’t sound like an ‘ideal’ interpretation, but it is full of...
Brendel plays the piano concertos of Beethoven 21 Sep 2012 | 08:55 pm
Judging from the superb performance of the Mozart piano concertos and Beethoven’s piano sonatas I was eager to listen to Brendel’s Beethoven piano concertos. Brendel recorded the full cycle of Beethov...
Beethoven piano sonatas, the complete cycle with Brendel 21 Sep 2012 | 01:37 pm
I had so much misunderstood Alfred Brendel! This changed when I heard his Mozart piano concertos. It sounded like a revelation – subtle, gentle, detailed. Soon I discovered that my other versions of M...
Peter Gabriel looking for a place to live 17 Dec 2011 | 10:40 pm
Growing Up, by Peter Gabriel (“UP” album) folded in your fleshy purse / i am floating once again / while the muted sounds are pumping rhythm / all the walls close in on me / pressure’s building wave o...
Luup, Meadow Rituals: a surprising, inspired, album 29 Sep 2011 | 10:48 am
New age or ambient music or music even just related with new age, is usually dull and boring, each and every minute shouting about how easily it was made and how easily it can be made, an indifferent,...
The music of Sibelius: ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams… 23 Aug 2011 | 06:23 am
Wildly popular a century ago as an icon of Finnish nationalism in a late-Romantic vein, Jean Sibelius was largely dismissed by music aficionados after World War II as something of a conservative light...
