This Month's Exploring Music
The great stories of classical music and jazz, featuring the great musicians, composers and colorful people that make the music even MORE interesting.
This Month's Exploring Music
Early But Inspired
Featured album: The Beethoven String Trios, performed by the Friedman-Vardi-Silberstein Trio. Click on the cover or here to listen. In February 1977 the new ensemble of Erick Friedman, Emanuel Vardi,...
Early But Inspired
Featured album: The Beethoven String Trios, performed by the Friedman-Vardi-Silberstein Trio. Click on the cover or here to listen. In February 1977 the new ensemble of Erick Friedman, Emanuel Vardi,...
BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS: Janacek's Two String Quartets
Featured Recording: Janacek: The Two String Quartets - The New World String Quartet. Click on the cover or here to listen. I find Leos Janacek's life story almost as...
BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS: Janacek's Two String Quartets
Featured Recording: Janacek: The Two String Quartets - The New World String Quartet. Click on the cover or here to listen. I find Leos Janacek's life story almost as...
Reviewing A Reviewer by A Reviewer
Featured Recording: Beethoven - Sonatas and Other Works, performed by Harris Goldsmith. To listen, click on the cover or here. At an age at which most of my contemporaries have...
Reviewing A Reviewer by A Reviewer
Featured Recording: Beethoven - Sonatas and Other Works, performed by Harris Goldsmith. To listen, click on the cover or here. At an age at which most of my contemporaries have...
Figures in a Revolution
Musically speaking (not necessarily in honied tones), a virtuoso nowadays is a performer who can play very fast and who, to the popular mind, looks generally like "Professor" Irwin Corey....
Figures in a Revolution
Musically speaking (not necessarily in honied tones), a virtuoso nowadays is a performer who can play very fast and who, to the popular mind, looks generally like "Professor" Irwin Corey....
Bad Press And It's Not Even Twelve Tone
Featured Recording: Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 1, performed by the Mendelssohn String Quartet. To listen, click on the cover or here. Some 15 years ago, a major music publication (it...
Bad Press And It's Not Even Twelve Tone
Featured Recording: Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 1, performed by the Mendelssohn String Quartet. To listen, click on the cover or here. Some 15 years ago, a major music publication (it...
One Full of Splinters, The Second "Unconsciousl...
Featured Recording: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - The Complete Musical Heritage Society Recordings. To listen, click on the cover or here. The first time that Sergei Prokofiev encountered the artistry of David...
One Full of Splinters, The Second "Unconsciousl...
Featured Recording: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - The Complete Musical Heritage Society Recordings. To listen, click on the cover or here. The first time that Sergei Prokofiev encountered the artistry of David...