The slow but loud and strident strings at the opening of the fourth movement are yet another indication of Weinberg’s internal angst. He was not only a unique composer in…
There is a Mahler Fourth on Pentatone with the same orchestra and the exceptional Israeli soprano Chen Reiss, and now here is his Mahler Fifth. The Unlimited license covers all…
The connections between music and art that Kandinsky formulated, and others, in my opinion, can also be drawn between Aboriginal art and music, as they are similar. It’s said that…
Sextus Empiricus, who said that music was an art of tones and rhythms only that meant nothing outside itself. We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center…
And once again, she manages to get more serious near the end, playing the soft string tremolos as if they were made of ice crystals. In the slow third movement,…
Nocturne No. 12 struck me as the most surreal and fragmented of the series, using the pentatonic scale and chromatic harmonies with the right hand playing, for the most part,…
As early as the 1930s, artists attempted to cultivate ideas of "symphonic jazz", taking it away from its perceived vernacular and black American roots. Following these developments, histories of popular…
I really don’t think that any review or liner notes could be more eloquent than that. And as a bonus, Mr. Perelman was kind enough to send me these great…
He began his solo career as a member of the Opera Studio and, later, in the Soloist Ensemble of the Opernhaus Zürich. The lyrical-coloratura tenor has played a great diversity…
The brightness of and patterns in Aboriginal art offer a strong representation of music as they do about the stories of their country, their people and their myths and Dreamtime…