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The Beethoven Symphony Series 5: Two Seventh Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
Ray Levier: Ray's Way
by C. Michael Bailey
If drumming is the subatomic glue that holds a jazz performance together, then Ray Levier is the Einstein of jazz drumming. On his debut recording, Ray's Way, Levier provides a veritable masters class on the seamless and relative incorporation of drums into the melody of a song. Add to this that Idit Shner joins Levier in ...
Cynthia Felton: Afro Blue: The Music of Oscar Brown, Jr.
by C. Michael Bailey
Oscar Brown, Jr. (1926-2005) was a man of many talents and interests. Brown could count himself as a singer, songwriter, arranger, playwright, poet, and civil right activist with political proclivities. In jazz, Brown is best remembered for providing lyrics to many instrumental jazz standards, including Miles Davis' “All Blues" and Bobby Timmons' “Dat Dere." Dr. Cynthia ...
Martin Frost / Tapiola Sinfonietta / Jean-Jacques Kantorow: Weber: Clarinet Concertos and Quintet
by C. Michael Bailey
Whatever you do, do not believe that 18th Century clarinet music begins and ends with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622. An unsurpassable piece of music, to be sure, but Mozart laid the groundwork for many composers for winds after him. One such composer was German early Romantic Carl Maria von Weber (1786- 1826, ...
Monika Mauch / Nigel North: Musical Banquet
by C. Michael Bailey
The music of lutenist and composer John Dowland (1563-1526) has been the subject of several recorded studies, including Paul O'Dette on Harmonia Mundi France and Nigel North on Naxos. The German label ECM has an established interest in 15th Century music in general and Dowland's in particular. This focus has resulted in John Potter's Dowland Project ...
Idit Shner: Tuesday's Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Dr. Idit Shner is a smart one. Currently instructor of saxophone and Jazz Studies at the University of Oregon, Shner was awarded her doctorate in saxophone performance within jazz studies from North Texas State after studying at the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University. Coming from those friendly confines, one might assume Shner the ...
Beatrice Long: Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 4
by C. Michael Bailey
Beatrice Long received degrees from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Trained under teachers including the late Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Leon Fleisher, Enrique Graf, Seymour Lipkin, and Fou Ts'ong, Long won the top prizes at the Robert Casadesus International Competition, Taipei International Competition, and the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati. ...
The Beethoven Symphony Series 4: Two Third Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
The Beethoven Symphony Series 3: Two First Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
XMAS V: A Classical Christmas...L'Arte Del Mondo, Phoenix Chorale, Clare College Choir, Capella Romana, The Sixteen
by C. Michael Bailey
...In dulci jubilo. Classical music always provides a legion of new and old holiday music. This is a year for premiers for both newly composed music and newly discovered old music. Present is music of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. And then, there is always Handel's Messiah. L'Arte Del Mondo
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