The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...
Other Minds' Conlon Nancarrow: Lost Works, Last Works assembles several of the odd bits and leftovers within Nancarrow's oeuvre that fall outside of the comprehensive five-disc Wergo set that contains "everything," Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano. It also includes a 30-minute interview with Nancarrow himself, conducted by executive ...
One would think that the definitive word on Conlon Nancarrow's player piano music, inasmuch as it circulates on CDs, has already been spoken -- minus a few unfinished items, every one of his works for mechanical instruments has circulated already, either on Wergo or Other Minds, or, going back into the days of vinyl, 1750 Arch and Columbia ...
There are flaws in the execution of this program, but no matter -- it's a rare recording that offers not just one but two original ideas. The first is that there's an energy that's characteristic of American music, whether it comes from the crowd-pleasing crossover sphere of Gershwin and Morton Gould or from the experimentalist quarters of Cage ...
The composer Thomas Adčs reveals himself as a genuinely excellent interpreter of 20th century piano literature in this 72-minute recording. What is especially refreshing is the breadth of music performed, featuring a gambit reaching from the well-rendered, conservative Norwegian Peasant Dances of Edward Grieg to Jatékók, the ?games' series by late ...
It might seem that there would be little to comment on in evaluating a "performance" of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano; after all, don't you just insert the piano roll in the mechanism and hit "play?" Apparently it's nowhere near as easy as that -- there are few extant player pianos mechanically capable of executing some of Nancarrow ...
Previously released by the Musical Heritage Society in 1991, this 2005 Naxos reissue is heartily recommended for its remarkable variety; and the outstanding new music ensemble Continuum should be commended for perpetuating Conlon Nancarrow's fascinating legacy. Known to many listeners as an eccentric, experimental composer for the player piano, ...
Japanese-born expanded violinist Mari Kimura is a pioneer in the realm of technological interactivity in music and one of only a few violinists to take seriously the study of sub-harmonics, whole ranges of pitches outside the violin's usual compass that may be achieved through special bowing techniques. Prior to the release of Bridge's Polytopia, ...
EDA's The Life of the Machines (called "Live of the Machines" on the CD's label printing) is an interesting and ambitious program of "mechanistic" piano music composed between 1916 and 1948. Pianist Vladimir Stoupel, based in France, is a frequent participant in the New York Philharmonic's chamber music concerts, Bargemusic performances, the ...
Naxos' bargain-priced compilation of three of its previously released discs of music by Philip Glass is especially valuable because it consists entirely of works for orchestra, a genre in which he is not especially well represented on recordings. (Many of his film scores are written for orchestra, but his absolute music -- symphonies and concertos ...
Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano is a cycle of work unique in many respects, not the least being its seeming indivisibility from itself. As the primary text of the music is a hand-punched piano roll intended to be played on specific, Ampico model player pianos, it does not lead to a wide range of options in terms of interpretation. ...
Conlon Nancarrow chose the player piano as the vehicle for his compositions because, when he was writing in the mid twentieth century, human performers simply weren't capable of executing them. Much to his amazement, toward the end of the composer's life, he discovered that instrumental technique had progressed to the point that at least some of ...
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