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July 1, 2008
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The common denominator in these two discs is Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Die Kunst der Fuge’s (The Art of Fugue) Contrapuntus 14, a prodigious contrapuntal exercise that was never finished; Contrapunctus 18 is an arrangement of the same for string quartet. It is widely thought that C14 was ... more |
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May 20, 2008
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From the top, this is another multichannel 2+2+2 disc produced by MDG and to the point; the sound is clear and transparent providing well with well defined musical lines as executed by Claudius Tanski. The piano is a 1901 Steinway model D No. 100398; with a very fast action which seems to be very ... more |
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May 20, 2008
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The question of great sound is decisive, because any pipe organ’s tones, voices, choices of ranks and registers to be used for any particular work are always (I should say almost always) one of the major decisions organists have to make for the performance of any work. Composers of the 15th, 16th ... more |
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May 24, 2007
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Listening to Christian Zacharias' new recording (13-14 November 2006) of Schubert's A Major Sonata, D. 959, Op. Posth., I am reminded of Goethe's autobiography, Truth and Poetry. Commentators have traced the motivic impulse in the first movement to Der Atlas (from the Swan-Song cycle, D. 957), a ... more |
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March 2, 2007
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Although the devoutly Catholic Anton Bruckner is usually remembered as one of the great symphonists, he also wrote many compositions that could be used both liturgically and as concert music. The motets were written between 1846 and 1885, a period spanning most of the composer’s productive life. ... more |
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