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2024-04-23
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2024-04-19 04:54:47
Although Masaaki Suzuki’s solo harpsichord Bach recordings span several decades, his technical and musical consistency seems to defy time, as borne out in The Art of Fugue. He continues to use a Willem Kroesbergen harpsichord modeled after a Flemish Baroque-style instrument, whose transparent timbres befit the vocal orientation governing his phrasing. For example, his tempos […]
2024-04-18 23:00:00
Following his magnificent 2001 recording of J.S. Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias for BIS, the Japanese harpsichordist/organist/conductor Masaaki Suzuki here offers more revelatory performances of some of Bach’s equally well known (as well as some lesser known) masterpieces. With this collection, simply titled Fantasias & Fugues, Suzuki provides a grand overview of Bach’s lifelong sporadic exploration […]
2024-03-21 16:30:49
Masato Suzuki(BIS, two SACDs)While some generous expressive effects are occasionally overdone, the fugues are projected with verve and crispness, and show Suzuki at his bestThis month BIS is releasing two discs of
2024-02-18 12:27:00
Wake up and listen to the music
Elsewhere much brouhaha about the launch of a BBC Radio 3 extension. This new online channel will offer "peaceful favourites.....ethereal choral music, soothing orchestral textures [and] mood-based repertoire [including] shows that lean into the mindfulness, wellbeing and sleep space... to create a consistent, calming listening experience". Personally this development does not worry me very much, as I have given up listening to Radio 3 completely since it became a deformed clone of Classic FM. But the hijacking of wisdom practices such as mindfulness to justify a desperate lunge for the Classic FM market does concern me. Mindfulness has been taken out of context and exploited by many other misguided corporations before the BBC saw it as silver bullet for the moribund Radio 3. Similarly yoga and other components of Eastern wisdom traditions have been ruthlessly exploited for commercial gain. In fact mindfulness is a key component of Vipassana meditation in the Buddhist Theravada ('Way […]
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