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Maurice Ravel is often discussed as though he were Debussy’s elegant cousin: another French magician of atmosphere, perfume, water, bells, moonlight, and haze. But that comparison, useful only up to a point, can blur what makes Ravel so distinct. Debussy dissolves; Ravel designs. Debussy lets sound drift into mist; Ravel cuts the mist into crystal. […]
26.06.23
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Johanna Senfter: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 9 Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz Chelsea Gallo, conductor Label: Capriccio Catalogue No.: C5555 Format: CD / digital download / streaming Release Date: 15 May 2026 Total Time: approximately 70 minutes Works: Johanna Senfter: Symphony No. 1 in F major, Op. 22 Johanna Senfter: Symphony No. 9 in E-flat minor, Op. […]
26.06.22
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Frank Martin: Chamber Music Utrecht String Quartet; Ilona Timchenko, piano MDG Frank Martin’s chamber music does not advertise itself with easy modernist gestures. It is neither aggressively experimental nor nostalgically conservative. Its power lies in a more elusive tension: the pull between old forms and new harmonic anxieties, between spiritual gravity and nervous rhythmic life. […]
26.06.22
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MAHLER Symphony No. 9 (Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon 4390242 Karajan understood something about this symphony that many conductors, even great ones, have preferred not to face: that the Ninth’s terror lives inside its beauty, not alongside it. The Berlin Philharmonic in September 1982 was the finest […]
26.06.22
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Lavinia Meijer (harp)Unfolding Linesrec. 2004, Maria Minor Church, Utrecht, The NetherlandsReviewed as lossless downloadSony Classical G010005651893M [68] From what I can glean from the press release – there is no booklet – this 2004 recording was self-released by Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer, and has now been licensed to, and remastered by Sony for digital-only release. […]
26.06.22
