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The Charles Ives Songs Series 2: Theo Bleckmann and Kneebody / Naxos, Vol. 1

by C. Michael Bailey
May 20, 2009

Fortunate for the recently completed cycle of songs by Charles Ives on Naxos' Charles Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 are Theo Bleckmann's re-imaginings of 12 of Ives' better known vocal compositions, Twelve Songs by Charles Ives. These two releases provide stark contrast between traditional and progressive performances of not only Ives, but of “art songs" in general. ...

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Irene Atman and Daniela Schachter meet at the Intersection of Joel Frahm

by C. Michael Bailey
May 6, 2009

Nowhere in jazz is the soil so rich as it is in the area of female vocals. Major label, independents, melting pots and old school, there are vocal releases appealing to any persnickety taste. Such a diverse marketplace is to the fortune of the listening public. This fortune is magnified when two dramatically different singers share ...

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Origin Classical: from Seventeenth Century lutes to Berio on morphine

by C. Michael Bailey
March 28, 2009

The Seattle-based record label Origin is making its bid to become the American ECM (or Winter and Winter), dividing the label's efforts between refined, eclectic jazz and edgy, progressive classical composition and performance. Origin's jazz roster is well known while Origin Classical is a more recent phenomenon. Two Origin Classical recordings illustrate the the polar nature ...

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The Beethoven Piano Sonata Series: Idil Biret and Andras Schiff - Sonatas 1, 2, 19, 20

by C. Michael Bailey
March 14, 2009

Turkish pianist Idil Biret (b. 1941) has been a household name at a number of record labels, most notably EMI and Naxos. A student of Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot, Biret is steeped in the Romantic piano tradition, being known particularly for her Chopin and Brahms. She has recently formed the Idil Biret Archives (IBA) to ...

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The Beethoven Piano Sonata Series: Introduction

by C. Michael Bailey
February 21, 2009

Before Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) changed the direction of music forever, he was a pianist...and a pretty good one to boot. Beethoven could play fiddle too, but, then again, he was no Paganini (though his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 has never been out of the repertoire and his 10 violin sonatas have always ...

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Two Views of Beth McDonald

by C. Michael Bailey
February 14, 2009

With singer/songwriter Beth McDonald, music is intensely personal. All aspects of music--performance, composition, arrangement, song choice and delivery--are branded with McDonald's vision. Her liner notes are full of mention of her family, motherhood and love. Her style is 1920s-1940s standards waxing nostalgic (yet still freshly modern) of the simpler, more wholesome things in life. This feeling ...

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The Charles Ives Songs Series 1: An Introduction

by C. Michael Bailey
January 31, 2009

American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) did not pay the bills writing poetry. Stevens attended Yale and then the New York Law School before joining the American Bonding Company as staff council. From ABC, Stevens went on to become the vice-president of the New York Office of the Equitable Surety Company of St. Louis, Missouri. ...

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The Beethoven Symphony Series 5: Two Seventh Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe

by C. Michael Bailey
January 31, 2009

Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 stands alone among the nine symphonies as being more about the expression of rhythm and momentum than the exposition of melody. The symphony possesses melody, to be sure, but the emphasis on rhythm (coupled with Beethoven's carefully chosen melodies) plants a hook in the listener's psyche as ...

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The Beethoven Symphony Series 4: Two Third Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe

by C. Michael Bailey
January 4, 2009

We are currently blessed with an embarrassment of riches from the ongoing recording of Beethoven symphony cycles by two fine orchestras and conductors. In the recent articles Two Beethoven Fifths and Two Beethoven Firsts, we took the bull by the horns and faced what is probably the most recognizable piece of classical music on record, the ...

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The Beethoven Symphony Series 3: Two First Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe

by C. Michael Bailey
January 2, 2009

Though the modern listener may never know it, Beethoven composed after Haydn and Mozart, but not after Wagner and Brahms. Acknowledged as the reformer of the sonata form as used in the symphony, Beethoven did compose two symphonies that, while ground breaking, remained in the established compositional mold of Haydn and Mozart's Classical symphonies. The majority ...