His assignment of particular qualities to a given mode is reminiscent of Plato and Confucius. In every historical period there have been defectors from one or more of these views,…
I need not add, for those who have sampled him on YouTube, that this is not how Bychkov normally conducts these works in live performances, but the recording is what…
By binding the chords and phrases of Schoenberg’s music, Iman almost makes it sound more pentatonic than atonal—one might say, a cousin to Scriabin. Nonetheless, Witzel does what he can…
I once knew a composer who very much liked performances of Mozart’s Symphonies that were unexciting but texturally clear because she enjoyed being able to hear the structure of the…
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…
Writing such reflective, slow music for the last movement is surely unusual, but in time the tempo doubles as both lower strings and winds in the orchestra play syncopated figures.…