Tag Archives: classical music

Garmarna’s Hildegard von Bingen

Posted on 25th December 2024 by Kim Bates

The sticker says “12th century chants, 21st century sounds.” But don’t let that strike fear into your soul. This is no mamby pamby attempt to cash in on the unexpected appeal of Gregorian chants with New Age backgrounds. Nor is … Continue reading →

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James Galway’s The Essential James Galway

Posted on 26th November 2024 by Lars Nilsson

James Galway has had a long successful career, and he probably has a larger audience than any of the groups and singers we usually write about in Green Man Review. He is even mentioned in the two most important Swedish … Continue reading →

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Jascha Heifetz’s Brahms and Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos

Posted on 6th November 2023 by Robert M. Tilendis

Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, cond. The 1879 premiere of Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 elicited, as … Continue reading →

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Èlia Lucas Quartet’s Introspecció

Posted on 31st July 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

Èlia Lucas Quartet’s Introspecció is a delightful album of accessible jazz. This empathetic ensemble conveys a variety of moods in a collection whose overall aspect it uplifting and life-affirming. The young Catalonian pianist and composer has a wealth of music … Continue reading →

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Lodestar Trio’s Bach to Folk

Posted on 25th October 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

These days I particularly enjoy music that combines roots or folk music with other traditions including jazz and classical. The musicians of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland seem particularly adept at this sort of thing: Norwegian guitarist Jakob Bro, the … Continue reading →

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Franz Joseph Haydn’s Piano Sonatas Numbers 29, 31, 34, 35 and 49, Emanuel Ax, piano

Posted on 11th October 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is one of the two giants of the Classical Period, the other being Mozart; like Mozart, Haydn’s music has been viewed in recent years, unjustly, as rococo, “snuff-box” music — charming, pleasant and good-natured. The name … Continue reading →

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Various composers’ Horowitz Live and Unedited: The Historic 1965 Carnegie Hall Return Concert, Vladimir Horowitz, piano

Posted on 11th October 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

Much has been written recently about the doom awaiting the classical music recording industry as labels slash budgets, terminate artist contracts and reduce the numbers of releases. Orchestras with long associations with record labels now find themselves with no recording … Continue reading →

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Trio Mediaeval’s Messe de Tournai, Words of the Angel

Posted on 11th October 2022 by Robert M. Tilendis

The manuscript for the Messe de Tournai was discovered in the nineteenth century in the library of Tournai Cathedral. Its existence, as is so often the case with manuscripts of this period, owes as much to chance as anything else, … Continue reading →

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Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma’s Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev Cello Sonatas

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Diverse Voices

Matej Novak wrote this review. Of all the instruments of the orchestra, the cello is perhaps the most “human,” for lack of a better word. If you close your eyes, you can almost imagine the sounds the instrument produces emanating … Continue reading →

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Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Robert M. Tilendis

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44; Chanson Georgienne, Op. 4. No 4 (Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel, cond.) Music by Russian composers in the twentieth century presents some interesting contrasts, not only between those who remained … Continue reading →

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