Monthly Archive: November 2009

Audio News for November 24, 2009

Sony Considering Charging $40 for Home Viewing of New Theatrical Films; Chinese Firm TCL Launches Glasses-Free 3D; Blu-ray Disc Price Drops; Blu-ray ‘Managed Copy” Starting Next Month, But Useless; Books for Burning; Country’s No. 1 Electronics Retailer is in Montana

Emil Gilels, piano = SCARLATTI: 7 Sonatas; DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano; Images–Livre I: Reflets dans l’eau; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor; SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major; PROKOFIEV: 6 Visions fugitives; Piano Sonata No. 3 – BBC

Inscriptions by the great Russian pianist Emil Gilels (1916-1985) from St. John’s, Smith Square and Memorial Hall, Farrington Street, London, basically from the beginning and the end of his British appearances.

PIAZZOLLA and Beyond = PIAZZOLLA: Libertango; Angel Suite; Decarisimo; Soledad; Michelangelo; Invierno Porteno; DAVID GORDON: Augmented Tango; Milonga Bourgeois; ADAM SUMMERHAYES: When Churchyards Yawn; El Desposeido – London Concertante – Harmonia mundi

This Piazzolla-oriented CD one goes further in including Piazzolla’s synthesis of various musical approaches combined with tango as part of new compositions creating another synthesis.