Sunday, October 28, 2012

Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012): Reverse Chronological Collection on Spotify

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" Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer of prodigious output best known for 'his consistent cult...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Conlon Nancarrow at 100: Chronological Collection

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" Conlon Nancarrow was an iconoclastic American composer who wrote in an utterly new way using new instrumental resources. While isola...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Magnus Lindberg - Reverse Chronological Catalogue

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"By the age of forty, Magnus Lindberg was one of the busiest concert composers in the world. His music avails itself of all manner of ...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

Johannes Brahms - Complete Works (Op. 1-122 + WoOs + Appendix) in One Spotify Playlist

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Brahms was secretive and a perfectionist. He seldom allowed more than one version of his works to exist, kept no drafts and burned most wor...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Arnold Schoenberg: Complete Chronological Catalogue

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"The most ear-splitting combination of tones that ever desecrated the walls of a Berlin concert hall," complained one critic afte...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Guest Post: New Music 20x12

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20 outstanding new works, each lasting 12 minutes, commissioned to feature centre stage of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. New Music...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Edition Staatskapelle Dresden on Spotify

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The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra, Dresden, commonly known as the Staatskapelle Dresden), founded in 1548, is an ...
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Nostalgia for a Far Away Future Utopia - Luigi Nono: Complete Chronological Catalogue

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" Luigi Nono achieved prominence after WW II as an uncompromising modernist seeking to revolutionize music in Europe. Along with fello...
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Friday, October 5, 2012

Johann Strauss II - The Complete Orchestral Edition

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" Johann Strauss II , the most famous and enduringly successful of 19th-century light music composers, was born in Vienna on 25 October...
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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Marco Polo: Josef Strauss Edition on Spotify

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"[ Josef ] is the more gifted of us two; I am merely the more popular…"  - Johann Strauss II on his brother. l.to r.: Eduard, ...
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