Musicon / Periscope / Steve Reich at Nonesuch: WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Periscope. Nonesuch continues to keep its Steve Reich discography up to date with major works from 2009 and 2010, alongside a smaller earlier piece, Dance Patterns for pairs of xylophones, vibraphones and pianos, from 2002. Reich’s string-quartet memorial to the ::More
Musicon / Periscope / Thinking about Pierre Boulez
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Periscope. It’s as a result of his efforts that so much 20th-century music is now established in the concert repertory The public perception of Boulez as the most hardline of modernists still persists, even though that austere image belies the generous-spirited ::More
Musicon / Periscope / Classic Schubertiads and The Prince Consort
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Periscope. Classic Schubertiads are modelled on the kind of Viennese soirees that Schubert himself enjoyed, long evenings of singing and informal chamber music around the drawing room piano. Schubert would have tried out much of his own music at these gatherings, ::More
Musicon / Periscope / Mahler Ruckert Lieder, by Skovhus and Meier
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Periscope. The Rückert Lieder has no canonical running order, so artists are free to forge their own emotional trajectory from them. Skovhus, placing Um Mitternacht at the end, made it a vivid examination of an existential crisis. Meier, placing it halfway, was ::More
Musicon / Sibelius / The music of Sibelius: ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams…
Wildly popular a century ago as an icon of Finnish nationalism in a late-Romantic vein, Jean Sibelius was largely dismissed by music aficionados after World War II as something of a conservative lightweight. So why is the Bard Music Festival this month featuring his work in a series of concerts ::More
