Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has been off the recording rolls for several years since the end of her association with BMG Classics, a division that itself went belly-up not long after Meyers parted company with them. In the interim Meyers has never been absent from the concert circuit and continues to exert her influence, artistry, and considerable ...
Like several other composers of his generation, Somei Satoh has an affinity for mysticism and meditation, and he attempts to convey stillness and timelessness in his extremely slow music. His works may be described as ambient, but their minor key harmonies and step-wise melodies seem more conventional than the blurred, unearthly sonorities usually ...
Johann Sebastian Bach is perhaps the most-transcribed of all major composers. The reasons are obvious: his music is immensely satisfying for musicians to study and learn and is not generally sensitive to changes in tone color.The first issue in judging a performance using a transcription is the aptness of the performer's choice. In this case, ...
Sômei Satoh is often classified as an ambient composer because of his penchant for writing slow, meditative works that evoke the mystical timelessness of Asian sacred music. However, Satoh's tonal harmonies and unblurred orchestration follow western conventions, and his soft, static works are only superficially like ambient music, insofar as very ...
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