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Chamber music by Kalevi Aho for clarinet (and some unexpected instruments)

Living in San Francisco, I have had the good fortune to experience two of Kalevi Aho’s orchestral compositions through guest appearances by...

Modern music from seventeenth-century Venice

The title of violinist John Holloway’s latest release for ECM New Series is Sonate concertate in stil moderno, taken from the title of two...

Geoffrey Burleson’s Saint-Saëns project

Pianist Geoffrey Burleson is undertaking a major recording project. Working with Grand Piano, the new “specialty” label of Naxos, he is...

Jeremy Denk’s juxtaposition of Ligeti and Beethoven

Rather late in his life, the Hungarian composer György Ligeti began working on a series of études for solo piano. He eventually composed eighteen,...

Jorge Luis Prats in Zaragoza

Last month Decca released a recording of a recital given by the Cuban pianist Jorge Luis Prats on March 2, 2011 in the Sala Mozart of the new...

The ‘challenge of the quiet’

I came across an interesting turn of phrase in Claire Messud’s review of The Artist of Disappearance, a collection of three novellas by Anita...

A complete Nazareth discography

Every now and then I have the opportunity to write about the Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth. On my San Francisco cite this is often in...

The London Conchord Ensemble surveys the complete chamber works of Poulenc

About a month ago the London Conchord Ensemble released a 2-CD set of the complete chamber works of Francis Poulenc. Those who comparison shop will...

Voices of Music launches a new online video series

In their latest effort to build an online library focusing on the performance of early music on HD video, Voices of Music has launched a new series...