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2023-12-18 05:30:00
KN's Favorite Recordings of 2023
by Karl NehringIn looking back over the releases that I reviewed during this past year, it strikes me that there were fewer of the symphonic works that I usually enjoy. I’m not sure whether that is the result of fewer symphony recordings being released or my lack of enthusiasm for reviewing yet another recording of Mahler or Bruckner (I dread 2024, Bruckner’s bicentennial year, which will no doubt herald no end of both rereleases and new recordings of his symphonies – of every edition and her sister by all manner of conductors and orchestras). Whatever the reason, my list of favorites strikes me as a bit unusual this year; however, there’s some darn good music to be found in this list of a dozen of my favorite recordings from 2023, which I present to you just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping. Beethoven: The Late Quartets. Calidore String Quartet. Signum Classics SIGCD733. It […]
2023-11-30 12:42:00
Recent Releases No. 67 (CD Reviews)
by Karl NehringTractus. Arvo Pärt: Littlemore Tractus; Greater Antiphons I-VII; Cantique des degrés; Sequentia; L’abbé Agathon;These Words…; Veni creator; Vater unser. Maria Listra, soprano; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; Tönu Kaljuste, conductor. ECM New Series 2800 485 9166Recorded in Tallinn’s Methodist Church last year, Tractus extends the line of Arvo Pärt albums on the ECM label that began with Tabula Rasa in 1984, the recording which first brought Pärt’s music to widespread awareness. I was in graduate school back then, working weekends as a security guard at a factory. Late one night as I drove from the main plant to check on an off-site location while listening to classical music on WOSU-FM, they played music from that album, which featured not only classical violinist Gidon Kremer but also jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. I was transfixed by Pårt’s music, becoming an immediate fan. I purchased the CD that very week and went on to acquire dozens more over the next […]
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Interest in Arvo Pärt is mushrooming
[…] was a shamanic and spiritual experience, breathing in the universe through every pore of my being. We were Romantics; fans of Wagner, Mahler, Strauss, Stravinsky, Britten and Henze, with their large gestures huge cords and the extravagant intervals to heighten the big drama of life in orchestral terms. More was more. Later that afternoon, we went home to our dark student flat, leaving the magic of the sunshine behind and put on the ECM album Tabula Rasa with music by Arvo Pärt. And everything changed......" Graphic is a detail from Alex Grey's Blue Moon Mushroom, 2021, acrylic on wood.
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