Many of the 11 solo piano works recorded here, particularly Piano Distance, For Away, the two Les Yeux Clos, and the two Rain Tree Sketches, have been performed enough to have moved from being novelties to being part of the standard repertoire of twentieth century piano music. One of the values of this extraordinarily fine collection is the ...
Bulgarian percussionist Daniella Ganeva is widely regarded as one of the best drummers and mallet players on the classical concert circuit. Ganeva has spent most of her life on the road and has had little time to do much in the way of studio recording on her own account. Time for Marimba is only her third album in 10 years, and it is actually a ...
The young Russian violinist presents an interesting, even unusual, selection of music to showcase his remarkable command of his instrument. However, one is tempted to question his decision to play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D minor, a rather banal, academic, and even tedious work whose sole claim to fame is the fact that Mendelssohn was only ...
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 ...
The music of composer Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) is perhaps the perfect antidote for today's overstimulated and overstressed society: endlessly circular wisps of melody, gentle string harmonics, and an intelligently slow and steady pace. Most of his fellow Japanese contemporaries, including Akira Ifukube and Yuzo Toyama, wrote in a style much more ...
Until the launch of Deutsche Grammophon's Echo 20 21 series, many to most of the excellent recordings of contemporary music the esteemed German label made from the 1950s through the 1970s had gone AWOL from the active catalog. That Deutsche Grammophon had anything to offer in terms of Takemitsu may come as a surprise to some, so long has it been ...
Atsutada Otaka's "Fantasy for Organ and Orchestra" (1999) was commissioned by the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music receives its premiere recording on this disc.. It opens with powerful blasts from the organ while the orchestra floats about in an impressionistic world, the string harmonies very much like the rich combinations of Toru ...
Austrian guitarist Franz Halász displays a fine sense of tone and pacing in this revealing overview of Takemitsu's solo guitar music. Takemitsu wrote for the concert stage in an original avant-garde idiom, created over 100 film soundtracks, and produced arrangements of Japanese folk tunes and Western popular music. This range, except for the ...
Speaking of delights that seem to come unexpectedly, Kaori Muraji is a young, virtuoso-grade classical guitarist who has recorded prolifically for JVC Victor in her native Japan. Transformations is apparently Muraji's first release targeted to the West. Yet from all appearances, this is a major entry in the crossover sweepstakes and a welcome one, ...
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