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Musicologist. Classical music devotee. Genealogy enthusiast. www.ross-review.blogspot.com
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07.05.2025 19:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My review of the new Andsnes Liszt recording.
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This is a terrific cycle. Engerer really feels these pieces. She does nothing weird/off-putting; she’s just a performer accentuating what makes the music great.
09.04.2025 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t find Schenkerian analysis to be particularly useful to the listening experience. Its chief virtue seems to be to satiate compulsive pattern-seeking in the theoretically minded.
08.04.2025 14:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don’t sleep on this music. I’m still enamored with it even after many months. The sixth etude especially, La Forêt Oubliée,” is a contemporary treasure.
05.04.2025 14:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Liszt’s Fifth Hungarian Rhapsody is a masterpiece. One of his very best compositions. It should be treated like the gem of Romantic musical expression it is. So underrated.
30.03.2025 23:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Wonderful recording. Some of Bach’s best cantatas.
29.03.2025 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mozart’s K. 456 is one of those strange concertos where the slow movement is more weighty and memorable than either of the outer movements.
17.03.2025 18:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We need more recordings of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies. Such colorful, fun pieces. Lots of room for new interpretations.
05.03.2025 16:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Underrated: Beethoven’s Op. 9 String Trios.
02.03.2025 00:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don't think the most important thing about a piece of music is its structure. I think the most important thing about it is its spiritual or emotional effect upon the listener. Structure can have something to do with this, but very often it doesn't.
28.02.2025 20:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Schubert’s development sections often turn out to be more like “fantasy remixes” of his themes. I absolutely LOVE that about his music.
26.02.2025 22:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm glad to be back at Classical Candor reviewing music. Here is my (positive) take on the new Ruth Gipps orchestral works disc from Chandos: classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2025/02/ruth...
25.02.2025 19:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The slow movement of Haydn’s 68th Symphony is LONG…and quirky.
24.02.2025 22:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just listened to the new Rouvali Sibelius 6 and 7 on Alpha.
6 is better than 7 here, but neither is particularly good. He doesn’t always have a good sense of what to assign to the foreground, the middle-ground, and the background in 6. And 7 is just a spasmodic mess.
Yep.
21.02.2025 20:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“It is impossible really to appreciate a truly great symphony without understanding its structure, because in such a work, expression is largely the result of structure.”—Marc Vignal
POPPYCOCK!
Reviewing the new Ruth Gipps Chandos disc for Classical Candor. Will be out soon. Some gems on this recording.
18.02.2025 23:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Recording Review #63: Scrumptious Scarlatti
Another fantastic installment in Naxos's complete Scarlatti sonatas series.
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Yes, quite good as I recall from my listen last year.
17.02.2025 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Recording Review #62: A Feeling for Field
Alice Sara Ott serves up some great Field Nocturnes.
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Recording Review #61: Mishandled Mahler
Rattle and Co. exhibit wonderful playing and sound. I just don’t think he gets this music.
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Thanks for the heads-up!
04.02.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Recording Review #60: Quibbles for Kantorow
I don't like some things, but I like a whole lot else.
At Noxubee Wildlife Refuge, Mississippi.
No gators in sight today!
All FREE today at the local library! 😲😲😲
01.02.2025 17:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vienna Phil
27.01.2025 21:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just found this at a library sale.
27.01.2025 21:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lucky.
26.01.2025 13:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A glorious moment.
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