Classical CDs Weekly: Wim Henderickx, Mahler, Roger Woodward - The Arts Desk
Flemish composer Wim Henderickx's music is a bewildering mixture of influences – of Stravinsky, Bartók, Messiaen, Xenakis and Ligeti. All of which are combined with a refreshingly un-woolly injection...
View ArticleThe sad karma of the Colón: García Caffi succeeded by Lopérfido
Public institutions such as the Colón Theatre depend on functionaries that may or may not have the savvy to make good choices in cultural matters. Mauricio Macri is a prime example of inadequacy:...
View ArticleMusic's Best Multi-Taskers
“Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.” — A. Borodin The Guardian has compiled a list of composers that had interesting second careers. Alexander Borodin – chemist Philip...
View ArticleMy Top 10 Hits of the 20th Century
HERE are Pierre Boulez's Top Ten Hits from mthe 20th Century. Anyone can play ! and should, because the fun is in the process of thinking, not in Becknmessering a result. My Top Ten HIts of the 20th...
View ArticleGreek composer wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale
They have announced Georges Aperghis, 69, as the 2015 laureate in the music category. A Xenakis apostle, he lives in France. (c) Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc All the news about classical music and...
View ArticleThe Hypnotic Groove Of Xenakis
The modernist composer's solo percussion music — fueled by quick pulses in bongos and the fat punctuations of bass drums — flows in a new recording. » E-Mail This (c) NPR - Classical All the news about...
View ArticleXenakis: IX CD review – delicacy and swing
Kuniko (Linn) Continue reading...(c) Guardian All the news about classical music and opera in press and media
View Article'I knew it was my music': Idil Biret Concert & Interview
Those assembled in Westminster Cathedral Hall earlier this month had the pleasure and privilege to hear the celebrated Turkish pianist Idil Biret in a concert arranged by the Chopin Society, performing...
View ArticleIntegrals, a splendid programming idea
In recent weeks an important panorama of contemporary music was presented at the Colón. During a week, the CETC (Center for Experimentation) offered an integral of the Iannis Xenakis Quartets, a...
View ArticleHappy 93rd Birthday, Iannis Zenakis
[Taken from the Iannis Zenakis Wikipedia article here ] Iannis Xenakis was born on May 29, 1922 (died in 2001) and was a Greek-French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. After 1947, he...
View ArticleDemocratising Space: An Interview with Oliver Coates
Oliver Coates , ‘possibly the busiest and most popular cellist in contemporary music ’, has collaborated with composers including Mira Calix , Jonny Greenwood and Mica Levi . He has also created an...
View Article69th Ojai Music Festival live broadcast schedule
Much of this year’s Ojai Music Festival, which begins next week, will be streamed live and archived online in broadcast quality HD. It’s free at www.ojaifestival.org . You can watch and listen on your...
View ArticleNext Great Art Song - David Xenakis's Favourite Art Song
Here is our next submission, a thoughtful response by David Xenakis. Submit your choices on our website! 1. Dunkel, Wie Dunkel - Johannes Brahms Among Brahms' many songs, this one strikes me as...
View ArticleNoted
Tom Service , in praise of musical stress: "If reducing stress was the primary driver of musical expression over the centuries, musical culture would not have developed very far or become as...
View ArticleIgor Levit review – a technical challenge transcended
Wigmore Hall, London Exceptional pianist takes on Rzewski’s demanding landmark anthem with Lisztian bravura and aplomb to end his residencyFrederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated is...
View ArticleProm 13 Shotgun marriage? No, Holst the Planets in context
Good old Holst The Planets with Boulez and Luca Francesconi? Superficially, this might seem a shotgun marriage. But Susanna Mälkki brought out the connections, which run far deeper than the populist...
View ArticleConsidering my classical history
I am sitting in a room listening to piano music. It is the music of Charles-Valentin Alkan, a man who – perhaps with a nod to musical history hyperbole – apparently died trapped beneath a bookcase. He...
View Article#ClassicalMusic Today October 15, 2015
Bernhard Crusell In 1775 Bernhard Crusell was born in Nystad (Uusikaupunki), Finland. In Stockholm, while in school, he established himself as a clarinet soloist. At the age sixteen he received an...
View ArticlePenderecki conducts Penderecki, London Philharmonic Orchestra
It's always good when a composer conducts his own music, so when Krzysztof Penderecki conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Halll, it was an occasion. In 1992, Witold...
View ArticleRecent updates to previously posted music
10/23/15 Glories of the Italian Piano School +1CD Domenico Nordio & Giorgia Tomassi (Beethoven & Pärt) 10/23/15 Glories of the Italian Piano School +1CD Geza Hosszu-Legocki & Giorgia...
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