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Angelo Verploegen and Jasper van Hulten: The Duke Book (Just Listen Records) Jazz performance is sometimes compared to a tightrope walk. A dialogue between a […]
Mark Werlin on Mar 09, 2020
Schumann, Mendelssohn and Schubert are seemingly sitting a bit forlorn between their ‘totally opposite’ Spanish numbers, who steal the show for all those, adventurous enough […]
Adrian Quanjer on Feb 25, 2020
It took 18-year-old Sergueï Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff, working from early morning to late at night, no more than two and a half days to finish the […]
Adrian Quanjer on Feb 20, 2020
Ole Bull, the other Norwegian composer from the town of Bergen, or, as Robert Schumann used to call him, the Norwegian Paganini, is for most […]
Adrian Quanjer on Apr 30, 2020
Over the years interpretation of Baroque music has seen some considerable changes, moving from slow, almost dragging performances to the more recent agitated, almost aggressive […]
Adrian Quanjer on Jan 23, 2020
What do the world-famous Dutch cellist, Anner Bijlsma, who passed away earlier this year, and his younger colleague, Wytske Holtrop, have in common? Both are […]
Adrian Quanjer on Dec 23, 2019
Regretting that Myrios no longer releases Super Audio CD’s, many will be glad to learn that recordings will henceforth be available through downloadable digital files […]
Adrian Quanjer on Dec 19, 2019
Audiophile jazz listeners, take note! New music labels Just Listen and Sound Liaisons are recording and releasing the creative sounds of contemporary jazz from the […]
Mark Werlin on Dec 04, 2019
How many will actually hear that these symphonies are played by only 9 musicians? Ernst Spyckerelle, responsible for all the arrangements, puts it this way, […]
Adrian Quanjer on Nov 25, 2019
Military bands are common, some are good, few are better. The Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy clearly belongs to the latter category, as […]
What does “Modern” mean? What does “Contemporary” mean? In the world of Classical Music, composers and their works generally have to wait 50 years or […]
Bill Dodd on Sep 10, 2019
This album is a fine collection of songs by American composers, presented by soprano Melody Moore and pianist Bradley Moore. The repertoire includes Samuel Barber’s […]
Floor van der Holst on Jul 05, 2019
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