On the back cover of the booklet for this set are ads for other boxes in the series -- "4 CDs for the price of 3," reads one. And you can get another, better yet, at "9 CDs for the price of 3." This box of Italian string quartets, at 10 CDs for the price of three, must therefore be the best of all, right? Actually, all these cheapo boxes generally ...
MDG Scene's Player Piano Vol. 4: Piano Music without Limits, curated by Jürgen Hocker, is devoted to early player piano works that historically serve as "impressive examples of early twentieth century machine aesthetics and may also be regarded as the forerunners of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano." It examines a number of European ...
While it isn't unusual to construct a recital program from similarly themed pieces of music, it is usual to do it with a majority of unknown works by unknown composers, as Jean-Pierre Ferey has done with Musiques de la Mer. Only four of the pieces here -- three by Debussy, one by Ravel -- are well-known. The rest are a mixture of late Romantic to ...
Some might balk at the notion of a cycle of six piano concertos by Gian Francesco Malipiero, particularly as all but two of them belong to the last 25 years of his career, a period where the number of his symphonies ballooned from four to 12, with each allegedly becoming more willful and eccentric than the previous one. Such notions, constituting ...
The relationship between the original Dadaist movements -- plural, as the style found distribution among a number of international cities -- and music is an aspect of early modernism that remains underinvestigated. Although Erik Satie's connection to Dada isn't in dispute, outside of concretism Marcel Duchamp's two aleatoric compositions and the ...
Although easily recognized as a modernist trailblazer in his works of the 1910s and 1920s, Italian composer Gian Francesco Malipiero is more of an odd duck in his extensive catalog of late, post-World War II compositions, to such an extent that it is hard to know whether he is coming or going. Gian Francesco Malipiero: First Edition compiles three ...
The third volume in Christopher Hogwood's Klassizistische Moderne series for Arte Nova is a balanced presentation of three comparable works from the 1920s; one is a famous masterpiece, though the other two are respectable, if more obscure, efforts. A defining work of neo-Classicism, Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella is based on lively themes by ...
Like many musicians of his generation, cellist Enrico Mainardi had his career interrupted by the onset of World War I. He began his musical career as a child prodigy of sorts, touring at the behest of his father from a very early age. The war put an end to his ability to tour and so his cello was set aside; when he took it up again, he had lost ...
Although there aren't many areas of the repertoire where Italian composer Gian Francesco Malipiero wasn't prolific, his cycle of 17 symphonies constitutes one of his most notable achievements. It consists of 11 numbered symphonies and six others that bear no number, but have thematic designations, such as the Sinfonia del mare (1906) included on ...
In approaching this varied CD, it helps to know that Gian Francesco Malipiero was extremely prolific, eclectic, and not always sure of his purposes; his disavowal of many works over the course of his long career gives evidence of his uncertainty and frequent dissatisfaction. Even so, while this program samples of some Malipiero's approved chamber ...
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