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Christmas 2016
by C. Michael Bailey
A Cappella is the original format for choral singing. The five selections addressed here make 2016 one of the better years for this music. Kings College Cambridge -The King's Men Twelve Days of Christmas Choir of King's College, Cambridge 2016 The King's Men are a vocal ensemble made up of choral scholars attending King's College, Cambridge. They are considered a close-harmony" group. Close harmony is an arrangement of the notes ...
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by John Kelman
Of all the longstanding relationships built between its artists and Manfred Eicher, the musical partnership of ECM Records' founder/primary producer and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt--who turned 80 years old on September 11, 2015--has to be one of the label's most important and fruitful. Certainly, amidst ECM's more composition-focused New Series imprint, there are few others whose collaborations with Eicher have proven to be so personally meaningful, so groundbreaking and so emotionally resonant. While Eicher worked in the classical ...
read moreAlessandro Giachero Ensemble: Passio
by Alberto Bazzurro
Quarantaquattro anni, alessandrino, Giachero allarga di fatto il già più volte apprezzato trio T.R.E. con Risso e Zanoli a un quartetto da camera (però, rispetto alla configurazione canonica, con un poliflautista al posto di uno dei due violini) nell'intento--ambizioso--di creare un'opera mista (ipotesi non nuova, del resto), classica e jazz insieme. L'elemento cameristico, alla fin fine, si rivela prevalente, secondo le modalità e le esemplificazione che andiamo a illustrare. Intanto l'aspetto compositivo (dodici i brani, tutti di ...
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by Nenad Georgievski
Arvo PärtTabula Rasa (Deluxe Re-issue) ECM2010 (1984) A question that has always been asked, regardless of genre, is whether music can be conservative and revolutionary at the same time. Various composers have surfaced in recent times with brilliant compositions, but their work has not adhered to any of the schools of composition that make up the 20th century classical music. These composers have often drawn inspiration from musical principles and philosophies ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has long been the recording darling of Manfred Eicher and ECM Records. The label has released no fewer than eleven volumes of his music, including the record under current consideration. Born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1935, Pärt immigrated to Berlin in 1980 to escape Soviet repression and shortly thereafter conceived his treatment of the Passion of Jesus Christ According to John based upon his newly developed musical style of tintinnabuli. His track of musical thought is ...
read moreHoliday Gift Idea: New Book Features Kronos Quartet, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakatmoto, Arvo Pärt, Jon Hassell, Michael Price And The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
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All About Jazz
The Moderns vol.2 explores the world’s great avant-garde artists. BADD PRESS announces the launch of The Moderns vol. 2, the second installment of a series dedicated to the world’s great avant-garde artists. Featuring more than 200 reviews and interviews, the book introduces readers to established and emerging music leaders from around the world. “The first volume was so warmly received,” says author Kevin Press. “Since its publication at the beginning of this year, I’ve been sent music from all over ...
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