The labels have been releasing a steady stream of Haydn recordings in honor of the 200th anniversary of the beloved Austrian master's death. (Our next...
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"You play just like a composer!" Clifford Curzon once sniped to my friend, the composer David Conte. Curzon intended it, and David...
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Of late I've been having an exceptionally fine time with music listening. That isn't to say that I normally don't have a fine time, only that the...
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A bit on some of the recordings currently wending their way through my ears. Igor Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale Igor Stravinsky conducts the Columbia...
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Bloomington, Indiana, Sunday March 5, 1967: the Foglesong clan, including my teenaged self, gathered before our once-fancy, now-aging Zenith...
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This is the third in a continuing series of articles about the "little masters" (kleinmeisters) of the later 18th century. The previous two...
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This is the second in a planned series of articles about the Viennese Classical kleinmeisters, those composers working in the shadow of the far better...
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Where the ground is fertile and well-watered, stuff grows. The seeds will come -- blown in on the wind, dormant in the soil, deliberately planted. It...
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German composer Ernst Pepping (1901 - 1981) has received a bit of attention of late, due primarily to a belated recognition of his significance in...
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It would seem that most attempts to record the complete Haydn symphonies have been doomed to failure. Only a chosen few have made it to the finish...
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