Musicon / Notes / 2010: 31 disks of interesting music
Here is a list, in alphabetical order, of interesting new releases I enjoyed more or less in the year that passed. There will follow, I hope, in January some posts presenting the best of them. Audio Bullys: Higher Than The Eiffel Badly Drawn Boy: Is There Nothing We Could Do Beach House: Teen ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Cadenzas
Compositions belonging to the category of chamber music, and concertos for solo instruments with orchestral accompaniment, all have individual characteristics conditioned on the expressive capacity of the apparatus. The modern piano is capable of asserting itself against a full orchestra, and ::More
Musicon / Mendelssohn / Mendelssohn – He went on writing music until he suffered a fatal series of strokes
According to Goethe, Mendelssohn bore “the same relation to the little Mozart that the perfect speech of a grown man does to the prattle of a child.” Even if Goethe got a bit carried away, his enthusiasm is understandable. Mendelssohn began composing at the age of ten, and within a year or ::More
