Showing posts with label Forbes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forbes. Show all posts
14.1.26

How To Build A Top Quality Classical Music Library For $100 (Prelude)

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This is a reposting of an article that George A. Pieler and I wrote for Forbes.com, back in 2013. Who knows, how much longer these article...
22.1.19

Twitter comments: "#pompous, ill judged & tone deaf"

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I do love a good argument! Rarely have I read such a #pompous , ill judged & tone deaf review. What an utter #MoronInChief @Classical...
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10.9.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: A Starry-Fantastical Contemporary American Piano Concerto

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...That Claude Baker is a fan of quotations, not entirely unlike his German colleague Hans Zender, also shows in the re-composition Aus Sch...
4.9.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Krystian Zimerman's New Schubert

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...Zimerman’s fingerprints and smudges move me here, rather than leaving me exasperated (legitimate response though that certainly is). The...
29.8.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Anton Batagov's Bach Is For Tripping

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...What we’ve got here, from the venerable Russian record company Melodiya, is very easily the most horrifying recording of Bach’s Partitas...
23.8.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: An Imaginary Orchestral Journey With Haydn And The LSO

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...What about the “pick-and-choose assemblage of bleeding chunks disrespectful to Haydn” angle? Oh, please. Every lamely performed Haydn sy...
17.8.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: A Gaggle Of Bruckner Fourths, Led By Manfred Honeck

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...Finally, we get to Manfred Honeck’s Bruckner Fourth. Honeck features regularly among the ‘Year’s Best’ recordings I highlight: With his ...
11.8.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: A Second, Intriguing Take On Max Richter's "Four Seasons Recomposed"

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...But the interspersed pieces represent a real bonus: Isang Yun’s Königliches Thema for solo violin on Bach’s “Thema Regium” from his Musi...
5.8.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Consoling, Questioning, Scratching -- Pēteris Vasks String Quartets

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...The String Quartets of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (*1946) are manifold works of considerable, eerie beauty and will be loved by thos...
30.7.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Tasty Danishes (Piano Trio Edition)

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...finally, there is the little ten-minute “Mountain Flowers” Piano Trio by Rued Langgaard (1893-1952). Langgaard-lovers – and if you get i...
24.7.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Classic Beethoven From Vienna Via Korea

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...I would go so far as to suggest that this might still be the most successful Viennese Beethoven symphony cycle to date … never boring or...
18.7.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Krystian Zimerman And A Brush With Grażyna

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...“A lot happens in my music,” Grażyna Bacewicz is quoted in the fine liner notes; “it’s aggressive and at the same time lyrical.” That’s ...
12.7.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Some Like It Plush; Riccardo Chailly In Early And Rediscovered Stravinsky

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...with so much unsuspected Stravinsky-goodness, it made me go and pull out my beloved Stravinsky-conducts-Stravinsky box (see also: The 10...
9.7.18

Forbes Review: A Dress, Two Stars And A Trout 'Electric-Eclectic'

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...Mutter’s tone is electric-fragile-light one second; searing like a devil’s pitchfork the next; then airy and free like a canary’s trill....
6.7.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Lied-And-Mélodie Beauties From Viktor Ullmann

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...Christina Landshamer’s song recital on Oehms has two short cycles by Austrian composer Viktor Ullmann (1898 – 1944) embedded in selected...
30.6.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Civilized Mozart-Beauty From Uchida And The Cleveland Orchestra (2018)

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...The orchestra, conducted from the keyboard, plays with chamber-like assurance and great sensitivity, adding greatly to this wholesome de...
24.6.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson; Through The Piano Glass

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...It’s easier to quip about Philip Glass’ music than to write intelligently about it. But Víkingur (Heiðar) Ólafsson, the young and trendy...
18.6.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Dresden Gems And Storks In Love

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...Now Alfredo Bernadini and his Ensemble Zefiro, one of the hottest numbers among original instrument ensembles, have brought out a delici...
12.6.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Mahler Most Charming, Made In East Germany

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...Something similar happens on this disc, except the nine Mahler-songs included – four from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Rückert-Lieder –...
6.6.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae, The Greatest Hits (Melchior Franck Motets)

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...The 1620s weren’t good years; instead of singing in church, most young men were dying in battle or from the plague. What was left were a...