Musicon / Chopin / Chopin - Sensitivity and Revolutions
“Chopin’s music came out of nowhere,” says pianist Byron Janis. “There is nothing that preceded it. He was truly unique. With Beethoven, you can hear it came out of Mozart. Not with Chopin.” Pauline Rovkah, head of the piano program at Chatham University, said ::More
Musicon / Kissine / Kissine - Silence is a part of music
Kissine — who makes his home in Belgium, where he is a professor of music at two important conservatories — writes that he was a student at the Leningrad Conservatory when he first discovered Ives’ piece, “The Unanswered Question”. Considering it a “revelation,” ::More
Musicon / Lasso / Lasso, Penitential Psalms - Tolzer Knabenchor, G. Schmidt-Gaden
I can’t find enough praise for this extraordinary performance of Orlando di Lasso’s penitential psalms. Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden leads the Toelzer Knabenchor and the Musikalische Compagney Berlin into the breathing of new life to this work, so far unknown to other recordings. Toelzer ::More
Musicon / Music and Literature / Notes / Boulez: Let us demand more from ourselves!
If you want to have a more interesting life, you will make some effort. It’s about the organization of one’s life. I am still shocked that so many people are not more creative, by which I mean more demanding of themselves. The main question we need to ask ourselves is: Do I try to be ::More
Musicon / Announcements / Welcome the New Year with the Best of 2009
Here are top albums featured by MUSICON in 2009. Enjoy! John Scofield, Piety Street Bob Dylan, Christmas in the Heart Allen Toussaint, The Bright Mississippi Bang Gang, Ghosts From the Past Bruch - 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano The Promise, by Vassilis Tsabropoulos Theodorakis, ::More
