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The Complete Music of Anton Webern —Recorded Under the Direction of Robert Craft: hugely influential recordings of jewel-like works

Apr 1116 min read

The Complete Music of Anton Webern —Recorded Under the Direction of Robert Craft: hugely influential recordings of jewel-like works

With Understanding Comes Appreciation In the years following his death in 1945, Anton Webern’s works became the Rosetta Stone of post-war...

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Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Béla Bartók; Part 1: seemingly contrasting properties of science and art are inextricably bound together to form the essence of genius' music

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Mar 1429 min read

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Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Béla Bartók; Part 1: seemingly contrasting properties of science and art are inextricably bound together to form the essence of genius' music

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Composed for nine instruments (2x pianos, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, snare drum, triangle,...

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Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky: sophisticated handling of primitive rhythms anyone ever thought up —dissonances, asymmetries, polytonalities and polyrhythms

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Mar 817 min read

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Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky: sophisticated handling of primitive rhythms anyone ever thought up —dissonances, asymmetries, polytonalities and polyrhythms

With Understanding Comes Appreciation The composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein said of one passage, "That page is sixty years old,...

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Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen: where experiments with untraditional uses of sounds, form, and spatial positioning create an all-time masterpiece

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Mar 312 min read

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Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen: where experiments with untraditional uses of sounds, form, and spatial positioning create an all-time masterpiece

With Understanding Comes Appreciation What is sound? Think about all the different possible sounds heard throughout the day. Cars passing...

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Ionisation by Edgard Varèse: dissecting my hero's hero's seminal masterpiece which influenced all kind of avant-garde music and beyond

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Feb 2714 min read

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Ionisation by Edgard Varèse: dissecting my hero's hero's seminal masterpiece which influenced all kind of avant-garde music and beyond

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Mr. Edgard Varèse 188 Sullivan St. New York, New York Dear Sir: Perhaps you might remember me from...

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Bar Kokhba by John Zorn: a journey to an elegant and sophisticated avant-garde territory

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Feb 23 min read

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Bar Kokhba by John Zorn: a journey to an elegant and sophisticated avant-garde territory

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Some of the words that arguably describe better this gem might be elegant, sophisticated, intimate,...

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