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Béla Bartók’s six string quartets attract a special kind of collector obsession because there is no single interpretive solution to them. Some ensembles stress the music’s bite and percussive violence, others its folk inflections, others its architecture, and others its strange late inwardness. The good news is that the catalog is unusually rich. The better […]
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Wojciech BŁAŻEJCZYK (b. 1981) General Theory of Relativity #NetworkMusic for voice, ensemble and live electronics (2017) [14:00] General Theory of Relativity (2018) for clarinets, percussion, piano and violin (2018) [12:45] M.A.D.(Mutual Assured Destruction) for ensemble (2007/20) [8:17] Angels of Peace for double bass, oboe, French horn and bass clarinet (2017) [15:15] Aether for ensemble and live electronics […]
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Title: Dvořák/Dabić: Origins Composer(s): Antonín Dvořák; Jelena Dabić Work(s): String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106; Anzhamanak Performer(s): Akhtamar Quartet Label: Cypres Format: CD / Digital Dvořák’s Op. 106 is one of those late quartets that can make “maturity” sound like a compliment instead of a hospice term, and Akhtamar have the good […]
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# Brahms’s Late Piano Pieces: Paul Lewis Finds the Pulse Beneath the Reverie Paul Lewis has been circling these works for years—you could hear it in recitals, feel it in the way he’d program an Op. 118 intermezzo as an encore and let the silence afterward expand. Now he’s given us the complete set of […]
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Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH (1714-1788) Sonatas and Rondos Marc-André Hamelin (piano) rec. 2021, Mechanics Hall, Worcester, USA HYPERION CDA68381/2 [63:32 + 77:29] Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach remains—how shall I put this?—stubbornly difficult to bring off. The empfindsamer Stil, that nervous, hyper-articulate language of sentiment and surprise, can sound merely fussy in the wrong hands, all those […]
