The program notes for this CD begin with a quote from British visual artist Michael Craig Martin: "Minimalism presents the viewer with objects of charged neutrality...objects that are without any hierarchy of interest...objects that reveal everything about themselves, but little about the artist." If that can be taken as an adequate definition of ...
With hundreds of recordings of Vivaldi's hugely popular Four Seasons available, any recording hoping to make a meaningful contribution to the discography needs to have more going for it than this simply adequate performance with Christopher Warren-Green leading the London Chamber Orchestra. On its own terms, this is an acceptable performance of ...
With 10 titles, EMI Classics has initiated a midline American Classics series, no doubt taking a cue from Naxos' success with a line utilizing the exact same moniker. This has been achieved through creative, though not necessarily artful, re-combinations of back catalog. Minimalism: Steve Reich-Philip Glass takes the Steve Reich items from a ...
Compilations take their fair share of justified criticism, but sometimes you just feel like listening to one type of music -- maybe slow music -- maybe slow Baroque music -- maybe slow Vivaldi. If that happens to be the case, then this Virgin Classics album of Vivaldi certainly fits the bill and, as compilations go, is nicely put together. Of ...
Young cellist Han-Na Chang, Korean-born and trained in the U.S. by Mstislav Rostropovich, is a newcomer to Baroque music, having released a mixture of cello classics and late-Romantic and contemporary concertos up to this time. Here she delivers a set of seven Vivaldi cello concertos that Rostropovich himself might have helped her shape; it's ...
This 1990 album by the London Chamber Orchestra could easily be entitled "The Small World of String Serenades." The well-selected program includes the works of Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, and Suk. The composition of each of their respective serenades is quite historically intertwined. Dvorák was the first to compose his serenade after winning a ...
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
Portions of content provided by All Music Guide or All Movie Guide. © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC. All Music Guide and All Movie Guide are registered Trademarks of All Media Guide, LLC.