Okay, it's time for me to stop trying to listen to more 2016 albums and just wrap up this list. In the past I would split my jazz list into a new releases part dedicated to current recordings and a historical part combining first releases of archival material with reissues. This year I'm skipping reissues, partly because some projects were so gargantuan that little guys like me weren't serviced with them, partly because the vinyl renaissance means everything is being reissued at once, and partly because so much stuff is just rehashing the same material in new packaging, with or without a gimmick or a little additional material added. So first releases of archival material are lumped in here. Maybe that's not entirely fair to the current guys, but on the other hand I don't include many archival items on my list.
1. Matthew Shipp & Bobby Kapp: Cactus (Northern Spy)
Two generations...
1. Matthew Shipp & Bobby Kapp: Cactus (Northern Spy)
Two generations...
- 2/9/2017
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Between reviews I'd been accumulating, things I listened to for my best-of-2014 list, and a couple of comparisons I'd planned to make, there's enough for another review roundup before the close of the year. Note that the three that could fit into the reissue category -- Rilling, Berman, and the first 71 tracks of the lead review here -- would all have been on my best-classical-reissues-of-2014 list if I'd made one.
Budapest Zoltán Kodály Girls' Choir/Ilona Andor; Magnificat Children's Choir of Budapest/Valéria Szebellédi; Budapest Zoltán Kodály School Children's Choir/Csilla Öri & Eszter Uhereczky; Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School of Budapest/Ferenc Sapszon; Kecskemét Miraculum Children's Choir/László Durányik; Kecskemét Aurin Girls' Choir/László Durányik; Angelica Girls' Choir of Budapest/Zsuzsanna Gráf; Pécs Béla Bartók Girls' Choir/Attila Kertész Kodály: Bicinia Hungarica; Tricinia (Hungaroton Classic)
This is part of Hungaroton's monumental Kodály Complete Edition, and contains exactly...
Budapest Zoltán Kodály Girls' Choir/Ilona Andor; Magnificat Children's Choir of Budapest/Valéria Szebellédi; Budapest Zoltán Kodály School Children's Choir/Csilla Öri & Eszter Uhereczky; Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School of Budapest/Ferenc Sapszon; Kecskemét Miraculum Children's Choir/László Durányik; Kecskemét Aurin Girls' Choir/László Durányik; Angelica Girls' Choir of Budapest/Zsuzsanna Gráf; Pécs Béla Bartók Girls' Choir/Attila Kertész Kodály: Bicinia Hungarica; Tricinia (Hungaroton Classic)
This is part of Hungaroton's monumental Kodály Complete Edition, and contains exactly...
- 12/29/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
His life was as romantic and colourful as his exquisite music, yet his works are rarely performed today. Delius deserves better, writes Julian Lloyd Webber
No other composer polarises opinion like Delius. You either love or loathe his music. And it is rare to find someone who has grown to like it. Although this coming year – the 150th anniversary of his birth – will bring opportunities to reassess his work, that central fact will never change.
I feel as if I have known Delius's music forever. My father was a devotee and I must have heard all of his most famous works (On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, The Walk to the Paradise Garden, La Calinda, et al) well before I started playing his cello music. I always felt instinctively attuned to Delius's unique musical language, which seemed akin to watching a painting that is slowly changing in a constantly moving canvas of sound.
No other composer polarises opinion like Delius. You either love or loathe his music. And it is rare to find someone who has grown to like it. Although this coming year – the 150th anniversary of his birth – will bring opportunities to reassess his work, that central fact will never change.
I feel as if I have known Delius's music forever. My father was a devotee and I must have heard all of his most famous works (On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, The Walk to the Paradise Garden, La Calinda, et al) well before I started playing his cello music. I always felt instinctively attuned to Delius's unique musical language, which seemed akin to watching a painting that is slowly changing in a constantly moving canvas of sound.
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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