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Tag Archives: classical music
Anouar Brahem’s After The Last Sky
Each of Anouar Brahem’s albums, going back more than 30 years now, has a different feel, a different vibe. Although the Tunisian oud master and composer’s music is centered on Arabic folk music and classical maqams, since the early 1990s … Continue reading
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Garmarna’s Hildegard von Bingen
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
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
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
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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Franz Joseph Haydn’s Piano Sonatas Numbers 29, 31, 34, 35 and 49, Emanuel Ax, piano
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
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
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
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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