Monthly Archive: February 2011
“Together” – ASSAD: Impressions; PIAZZOLLA: 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires; BARTOK: Romanian Folk Dances; GERSHWIN Aria – NCCO/Salerno-Sonnenberg – NSS BARTOK: Divertimento; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste; Romanian Folk Dances – Les Violons – Atma
Both of these string orchestras are committed and with emotionally-communicative groups of players.
Kurt Baum = 18 Opera Arias by BELLINI, ROSSINI, HALEVY,VERDI, PUCCINI, GOUNOD, BIZET, LEONCAVALLO, PONCHIELLI, GIORDANO, MEYERBEER, and R. STRAUSS – Kurt Baum, tenor/Austrian Symphony Orchestra/Wilhelm Loibner – Preiser
A vocal anomaly, Kurt Baum could deliver both unblemished beauty and power and irritating, mannered histrionics at once.
Audio News for February 4, 2011
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BACH: Original works and transcriptions – Evgeni Koroliov, piano/ Ljupka Hadzigeorgieva, piano – Tacet
Adventurous programming from a pianist who is starting to really make some noise.
SOLO – Ning Feng, violin – Channel Classics
You will be blown away by the artistry of this album, and blown away in great sound to boot.
Dead Can Dance – Into the Labyrinth – Gerald Perry & Lisa Gerrard – 4AD/Mobile Fidelity (2 LPs)
This Australian duo combine in their various albums world music, ambient, neoclassical, new wave, gothic rock and post-punk.
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (1877 Version) ed. Leopold Nowak – BIS
A fresh listen to Bruckner’s groundbreaking Second Symphony.
BEETHOVEN: 33 Variations in C on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120; 6 Bagatelles, Op. 126 – Gary Cooper, fortepiano – Channel Classics
Interpretively, Cooper’s Diabelli Variations is fine, but I have issues with the instrument he’s chosen.
Nidaros Domkor – Trondheim Soloists String Quartet/ Torbjorn Dyrud, organ/ Nidaros Cathedral Choir/ Vivianne Sydnes – 2L
Gorgeous sounds coming from a wonderful acoustic space captured to perfection—and the music is terrific too.
Editorial for February 2011
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Audio News for February 1, 2011
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