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Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album evaluate – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  3 weeks ago  

Ten years on from his death, this newly released stay recording from the 1999 Styriarte festival in Graz is a welcome reminder of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s revolutionary formula to music. At its coronary heart is a uncommon – for him – foray into the enviornment of Richard Wagner, provocatively coupled with Mendelssohn and Schumann, two composers ...

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Tomeka Reid: Dance! Skip! Hop! overview – an early contender for jazz album of the yr

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  3 weeks ago  

US cellist and composer Tomeka Reid and her frequent guitar soulmate Mary Halvorson bear aloof so many compliments for their jazzily vogue-free innovations throughout the last decade and a half, that they don’t must extinguish a 2nd proving anything else to someone. These two mettlesome musicians bear performed alongside the tricky, cerebral Anthony Braxton, and ...