Editorial Product Review: :The Last Night of the Proms, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, is one of the world s most popular classical music concerts, watched and listened to by an audience of many millions around the globe.In this DVD presentation of the Last Night during the 100th season, featuring Bryn Trefel and Evelyn Glennie, the concert has its usual party atmosphere, celebrating British tradition, while encapsulating the spirit of the Proms, with its all-embracing program bringing together the themes of the season.Toccata and Fugue ...
Editorial Product Review: :The Last Night of the Proms, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, is one of the world s most popular classical music concerts, watched and listened to by an audience of many millions around the globe.In this DVD presentation of the Last Night during the 100th season, featuring Bryn Trefel and Evelyn Glennie, the concert has its usual party atmosphere, celebrating British tradition, while encapsulating the spirit of the Proms, with its all-embracing program bringing together the themes of the season.Toccata and Fugue ...
Editorial Product Review: :Sàndor, still active at 90 as this reissue appears, was a student of Bartók and a preferred interpreter of his music. Since this set appeared on nine LPs in the early 1960s, it has been the standard for Bartók's piano music; in this fine-sounding reissue, it still is. Sàndor can hit hard enough for such virtuoso pieces as the Piano Sonata and 'Out of Doors,' but he also retains the romantic element heard in the composer's own playing which tempers the harsher qualities of the ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:If you're looking for a real bargain set of Beethoven's complete symphonies, look no further. David Zinman leads the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich through the big nine. Unconventional--this is the world-premiere, modern-instrument recording of the New Barenreiter Edition (translation: slight variations in the scoring)--and with Zinman's typically fast tempos, these are spirited, though probably not definitive, performances. Herbert Von Karajan's 1963 cycle of Beethoven's symphonies must still be considered the essential versions and, costing only 10 dollars more than this set, it's just as ...
Editorial Product Review: : Considering that Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has been around for nearly a century, it's surprising that even today, conductors literally get lost while attempting to beat through it--and that goes for some of the biggest names. Difficult as the piece is, conductors have no excuse for major lapses, now that this recording is available for study. Bernstein not only keeps complete control of the complex rhythms and constantly-switching meters throughout the work but he also interprets it with fire and sweep and emotional versatility. ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Recordings don't get any better than this ... Astounding!' -- ClassicsToday [CED 68] World premiere recording of a major classical work: the 1805 violin concerto by Franz Clement, the violinist for whom Beethoven wrote his Violin Concerto in 1806. First recording to put the Beethoven Violin Concerto into historical context features major artists putting their interpretive stamp on these important works.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Recordings don't get any better than this ... Astounding!' -- ClassicsToday [CED 68] World premiere recording of a major classical work: the 1805 violin concerto by Franz Clement, the violinist for whom Beethoven wrote his Violin Concerto in 1806. First recording to put the Beethoven Violin Concerto into historical context features major artists putting their interpretive stamp on these important works.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Recordings don't get any better than this ... Astounding!' -- ClassicsToday [CED 68] World premiere recording of a major classical work: the 1805 violin concerto by Franz Clement, the violinist for whom Beethoven wrote his Violin Concerto in 1806. First recording to put the Beethoven Violin Concerto into historical context features major artists putting their interpretive stamp on these important works.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:'Recordings don't get any better than this ... Astounding!' -- ClassicsToday [CED 68] World premiere recording of a major classical work: the 1805 violin concerto by Franz Clement, the violinist for whom Beethoven wrote his Violin Concerto in 1806. First recording to put the Beethoven Violin Concerto into historical context features major artists putting their interpretive stamp on these important works.
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream.
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream.
It's June 29th and Apple is finally ready to let the public play with the iPhone. The past six months have shaped up to be the highest profile mobile phone launch ever, Apple has conjured up an...
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