Alexander Chen’s “baroque.me”, an uncannily cool realization of the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite in G Major, BWV1007 (which may, in fact, have been composed by Anna Magdalena Bach).
Check it out at Vimeo
You can see a Flash implementation of the above video at baroque.me.
I’m going to take a crack at regularly showcasing new and recent releases that impress the heck out of me. Herein is the first edition.
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I’m going to take a crack at regularly showcasing new and recent releases that impress the heck out of me. Herein is the first edition.
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More information on the featured recordings:
Continue reading Inaugurating the New and Recent Release Podcast
It was Ray Edwards – at the time buyer for Tower Records’ legendary, late, lamented classical department on West 4th and Broadway – that recommended I check out the recordings of British-born, Russian-raised conductor Albert Coates (I believe we’d been talking about the ever-popular “Toscanini vs. Furtwängler” debate and my having come down decidedly on the side of Willem Mengelberg).
Continue reading Is He the Greatest Recording Era Conductor You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of?
Rachel Barton Pine brought both her daring approach to programming and dynamic artistic personality to a demanding program of solo violin music last night at Bargemusic.
Bach‘s Prelude and Fugue in b-flat minor from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, played by Tatiana Nikolayeva. Originally released by Melodiya, reissued in one of Scribendum’s superb Melodiya archival releases remastered at Abbey Road Studios.
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